bracken

Example Sentences

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Only decades ago many of the cottages in Scotland’s Highlands were roofed in heather, bracken and marram grass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Alternatively, you can use wool bracken and also coconut coir, but it has a few question marks against it because it's a waste material from coconut plantations, grown mostly in India and Sri Lanka.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

As part of the trust's wildlife management, the keepers also help to reduce the amount of combustible vegetation, by rolling back bracken and allowing livestock to graze the grass.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022

It’s where we made forts in old tree trunks and threw bracken fern spears and swam in the cold waters of Puget Sound all summer.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2021

To get there you went out the back entrance, and down the narrow twisting path, pushing past the overgrown bracken that, in the early autumn, would still be blocking your way.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro