bramble

Rachel, from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, made a burial shroud for a friend from locally-sourced wool, willow, bramble and ivy, as part of her work as an artist.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024

This year, while contemplating navigating the bramble of union strike rules about what’s promotable during Hollywood’s dual writer-actor stoppages, the longtime Humanitas Prizes for screenwriters encountered an additional complication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

Modern screenwriting contracts, and who gets what credit, are already a bramble that the guild often has to step in and sort out.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

Pushing upward with what remained of her quavering strength, she heaved it open and emerged in a tangle of bramble with summer’s last shriveled berries still clinging to the vines.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

They can be found in tall trees, hedges, brambles and buildings.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

At length, the larger of the two came out, slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

Over the brambled wall we saw cows lying down in a pasture.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

There are certain well-charted highroads where there were once only brambled trails.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow

One of the latter, in a thick brambled mancha, for some time defied the dogs, which declined to face him at close quarters.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

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 Harold Frederic

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 Henry Morley

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 Gilbert White