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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

Instead of cutting down and burying this rotten bough, Bilger decided to climb to it, build a sturdy perch, have a long look around and report his findings in a new memoir, “Fatherland.”

From New York Times ● May 14, 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

"There-" Before the others could examine the drop of blood, Jack had swerved off, judging a trace, .touching a bough that gave.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

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

Abby crawled under the roof and lay face down on the pine boughs.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret