briar
Example Sentences
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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
It created a taut moment before we were launched into the briar patch below and Br’er Rabbit could hop to safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
But like Brer Rabbit hitting the briar patch, Santos has landed in a spotlight that is, for now, warm and inviting.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2023
During the reprise, a complaint by Cinderella’s Prince about the “thicket of briar, 100 feet deep” protecting Sleeping Beauty leads to a tongue-twisting musical exchange:
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Icicles hung from the brown briar of his beard, and his mustache was a lump of frozen snot, glittering redly in the light of sunset.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
