scrubby
Example Sentences
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Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Kharg Island, a scrubby stretch of land in the northern Gulf, handles almost all of Iran's crude exports and any attempt to seize it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, analysts say.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 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
She says she had been stuck in France for two months, after travelling there from Vietnam via Hungary, sleeping in tents in a scrubby forest.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
It’s ten or fifteen buildings this time but even from a distance it looks scrubby and run-down.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
