bramble

For long stretches, Fish and I walked in the bike lane, or in the bramble by the side of the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

Modern screenwriting contracts, and who gets what credit, are already a bramble that the guild often has to step in and sort out.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

First are light bites like venison tartare flecked with pickled garlic buds and served with bramble purée, and a seaweed “cornetto” filled with salmon belly tartare and salmon mousse.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Transforming the bramble patch at the end of the garden into John's home has brought Bill a friend, community and a new job.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

We heard them approach, and fled along the riverside, stepping through high grass and bramble.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

We passed by apple, nectarine and pear trees, then blackberry brambles as large as a football field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Meanwhile, in nearby pastures and olive groves, the buildup of grasses, brush, and brambles was kept under control through a combination of livestock grazing, manual brush cutting, and occasional managed burning.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

Her arms and legs are covered in scratches from the brambles she had to push through on the route, very little of which is on a path.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2024

Manchee barks, circling round me, trying to find a way into the brambles.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

That face — all determination and brambled beard — still fronts much of the league’s promotional material, including its “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, which is aimed at improving fans’ behaviour.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017

"You tiresome boy!" she gasped, holding one little hand to her side as she gripped her brambled skirt around her ankles with the other.

From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

We knew not then how time passed, and could but dimly guess how things were going beyond the brambled copse in which we fought.

From In the Valley by Harold Frederic

One of the latter, in a thick brambled mancha, for some time defied the dogs, which declined to face him at close quarters.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

Thy feet she leads to glittering peaks, while mine She guides midst brambled roadways.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean!

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White