bough

Sometimes seven-year-old Bayas would stand on a slender bough and lean out until it bent under his bulk, then ride it to a neighboring trunk.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory consequence to date of X, which has scaled back its content moderation policies since Mr. Musk bough the service, once known as Twitter, last year.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

“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

It moves along the bough of a tree in its characteristic upside- down position at the speed of roughly 400 metres an hour.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

And although their shaggy boughs somewhat resemble teddy bears, they’re sharp if you step too close.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

At last, we found it: a sturdy Douglas fir with boughs that had pleasant symmetry and enough firmness to carry ornaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

But there was nothing to be seen but clustering bushes and water weeds and low-hanging boughs of yew.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman