scrubby
Example Sentences
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Known as "the jungle", the camp is a scrubby patch of land beside a road and a railway line.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Kharg Island, targeted in US air strikes on Saturday, is a scrubby stretch of land in the Gulf that handles almost all of Iran's crude exports.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Should I use precious column inches teasing out the scrubby understeer of a Toyota Sienna minivan?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
It was a landscape of scrubby shrubs and chaparral and grasses.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
The unused field had a scrubby rise hiding its far side.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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