bramble

Rachel, from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, made a burial shroud for a friend from locally-sourced wool, willow, bramble and ivy, as part of her work as an artist.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024

This year, while contemplating navigating the bramble of union strike rules about what’s promotable during Hollywood’s dual writer-actor stoppages, the longtime Humanitas Prizes for screenwriters encountered an additional complication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

Modern screenwriting contracts, and who gets what credit, are already a bramble that the guild often has to step in and sort out.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

This lively red from the Beaujolais cru appellation of Morgon is rich with cherry and bramble flavors.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

Having crawled through a bramble bush for the prickly poppy, I was feeling a bit prickly myself just then.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

We passed by apple, nectarine and pear trees, then blackberry brambles as large as a football field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Meanwhile, in nearby pastures and olive groves, the buildup of grasses, brush, and brambles was kept under control through a combination of livestock grazing, manual brush cutting, and occasional managed burning.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

Her arms and legs are covered in scratches from the brambles she had to push through on the route, very little of which is on a path.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2024

There were lots of little roads that kept turning in among the trees and brambles and flowers.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

That face — all determination and brambled beard — still fronts much of the league’s promotional material, including its “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, which is aimed at improving fans’ behaviour.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017

Or, bowling peacefully upon my bike, Well breakfasted, by no distractions flustered, Pause near a leafy copse or brambled dyke, And answer song for song the black-backed shrike, The curlew and the bustard.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various

Over the brambled wall we saw cows lying down in a pasture.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard

There are certain well-charted highroads where there were once only brambled trails.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)

One of the latter, in a thick brambled mancha, for some time defied the dogs, which declined to face him at close quarters.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean!

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert