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

The bramble was so thick, police used ladder trucks to peer into sections that could not be searched by foot.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

This lively red from the Beaujolais cru appellation of Morgon is rich with cherry and bramble flavors.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

The Favela chair, made in the early 1990s, was more hopeful, a frenzied-looking bramble of small slats of wood nailed together and inspired by the ad hoc structures of Brazil’s favelas, or shantytowns.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2022

Having crawled through a bramble bush for the prickly poppy, I was feeling a bit prickly myself just then.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

Raspberries are brambles, part of the absurdly large genus Rubus.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

A large spider sat in the middle of a frosted web in the brambles.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

The road back to Nature is full of her own secrets, and few who have trod the streets of the city remember the brambled return, or care.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

"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 Harte, Bret

Or, bowling peacefully upon my bike, Well breakfasted, by no distractions flustered, Pause near a leafy copse or brambled dyke, And answer song for song the black-backed shrike, The curlew and the bustard.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various

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 Frederic, Harold

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 White, Gilbert

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 Morley, Henry