scrubby
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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
To reach Australia’s pole in 2022, Brown flew to a town in the interior desert, rented a 4X4 and off-roaded across scrubby ranchland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Setting fires in the Sandhills of central North Carolina requires an understanding of moisture levels in the scrubby underbrush, and she gets a better sense of it in bare feet.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
Ahead of her, the trail of scrubby shrubs is heading toward a monster.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Trees and brush were scarcer and scrubbier than above, and the general aspect was becoming more and more like the semi-arid parts of the Colorado Desert.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
Up, up, he went, and the pines grew shorter and scrubbier.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
The hills on both sides of the river grew loftier and more rugged as we ran to the south, and the trees became patchier and scrubbier.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
Everybody’s got to start somewhere, and in 2002, Harbaugh was at the bottom of the food chain in Oakland — the scrubbiest of scrubs, despite the title of quarterbacks coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Every fetishized element — the glorious house, the tiled pool, Marianne’s Dior outfits and the scrubbiest of vistas — looks ravishing, ready for a close-up, too.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2016
As for your solution of "... a wider attempt to breed better-grade cattle with less waste . . ." one would assume that we are still marketing the scrubbiest of the old Longhorns.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I hope I don’t pick the scrubbiest one.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
He was the roughest, scrubbiest boy when we last met.
From Clover by Coolidge, Susan
