bough
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One of them, photographer Tim Laman, had tied a line to an arrow and shot it over a high bough.
From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024
“I see a ‘No Trespassing’ sign, I don’t do it,” she explains, recalling how her wife might pick fruit off a neighbor’s tree if the bough hangs over the fence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023
There wasn't a single twinkling light or even a scrap of a pine bough, all the way from the subway station to her building.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2022
The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
From Washington Post • May 30, 2022
Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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