briar

Example Sentences

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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

Guests will have their final chance to plunge a five-story drop through a briar patch on May 30, giving Disneyland attendees one last busy Memorial Day weekend to experience the attraction in its current form.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023

During the reprise, a complaint by Cinderella’s Prince about the “thicket of briar, 100 feet deep” protecting Sleeping Beauty leads to a tongue-twisting musical exchange:

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

And the witness box is his briar patch.

From Washington Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Arya's arms and legs were stiff when she finally wrig-gled out from under the briar into the dark of the wood.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin