hedgerow

noun

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hedge·row | \ ˈhej-ˌrō

Definition of hedgerow

: a row of shrubs or trees enclosing or separating fields

Examples of hedgerow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some are simple, such as a park bench in a simulated hedgerow maze and a whimsical wall of flowers behind a bathtub. — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 19 May 2021 Find a tree, hedgerow, even a piece of farm equipment to break up your outline. — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 6 Jan. 2021 The poem opens with the lines, This lonely hill was always dear to me/ and this hedgerow, which cuts off the view/ of so much of the last horizon. — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 June 2020 On warm summer evenings, the fields and hedgerows hum with new insect life. — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020 The bedside wall ran through the pastures to the hedgerow, which stretched along the wall with the door. — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020 So grab a shotgun and work over every tangle of hedgerow brush and field-edge bramble, and stomp on every pile of timber slash. — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 3 Feb. 2020 New lands were brought under the plow and hedgerows were ripped up, leading to erosion. — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020 Plus, there aren’t 10 hunters laying in the middle of the decoys or crouching in A-Frames in a hedgerow with their heads peeking out the top of the blind. — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020

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