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

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

The course meanders along novel topography, full of odd elephant-shaped mounds, humps and abrupt gulches, lined with pine, fir, heather and bracken.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 14, 2020

There was bracken, and curled foliage on the ground, and the light coming out between the branches was a queer coppery green, like the light under the sea.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill