bushwhack
Example Sentences
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His characters bushwhack through the jungle in 2010’s “Matterhorn,” fish and log in “Deep River,” and now, in “Cold Victory,” ski south from the Arctic Circle in a 500K race.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
You are going to have to find — no, bushwhack — your own path.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2020
This is Matt Blain, who made enough money working at Google that he could quit and do what he really wanted to do: bushwhack and mountain bike.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
He’s grown up since then, and I’d rather give him the space to bushwhack through America’s racial angst—and maybe even make mistakes—than reward tidy, safe spectacles that simply pretend that everything’s fine.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2016
I stand with the help of the armrest, then bushwhack through an impossible thicket of Jude’s blond hair to a bathroom, where I splash cold water on my face.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
