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
He’s in the Hong Kong airport with just his clothes, a small folding knife, an A.T.M. card and some lingering bruises, as if God has flung him from a bough.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2021
To my surprise, she reached up to my lowest bough and gently tied a scrap of blue-striped fabric in a careful knot.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
When the wind blows hard, and their branches and boughs thrash and creak, I am convinced they will topple over and cleave my home in twain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Among the bold-faced names dangling in ornament form from our boughs are Anna Wintour, Frida Kahlo, Karl Lagerfeld and Snoop Dogg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
The two friends roofed the pit with tree boughs and straw.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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