bushy
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Zaidi, who dresses in dark blue suits and has a bushy black mustache and cropped beard, was quickly embraced by Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Even with a bushy beard, Branagh’s face offers a window to Nick’s life of regrets and his sudden wild hope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Here we have two hominin species that are together. And human evolution is not linear, it's a bushy tree, there are life forms that go extinct."
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
The singer is always like this – bright eyed, bushy tailed, full of beans before breakfast - but at Glastonbury, he had an extra spring in his step.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Mr. Mahon was a cranky-looking man with a bushy mustache.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The island tree is shorter and bushier, its bark thicker and its cones rounder than the mainland tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
If they survive, those same trees will be bushier and healthier the following year.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
To plant seedlings with bushier roots, the company acquired a machine that pumps out cigarlike tubes of soil wrapped in brown paper and produces far more seedlings a week than a human could manage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
In her presentation, Hurd showed a neon green–and–yellow neuron with sparse, stunted branches next to its much bushier normal counterpart.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 31, 2023
Chian narrows his eyes, making his eyebrows look even bushier.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
But Kimbrel, the Red Sox closer, and Turner, the Dodgers’ third baseman, now seem to be competing for the unofficial title of bushiest, scraggliest, most unkempt beard in sports.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
I’d plant more hydrangeas, but it has some of the bushiest jasmine I’ve yet seen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2016
I’d written three features before I’d arrived, but they were the bushiest of the bush league.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2013
He spent his wages on flying lessons and became a bush pilot in Alaska, the state with the bushiest piloting of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
But what will she say, if, one fine day, When they've got their bushiest tails, Their grown-up game should be just the same, And again she must follow mere trails?
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
