boscage

variants also boskage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boscage
Noun
  • Bond has helped them with yard work, trimming bushes and spraying for insects.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • He was pursued by Gonzales-Magallanes and a juvenile suspect, who emerged from a hiding spot in some bushes and opened fire toward Othman, prosecutors alleged.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The driver also brake-checked the officer, but the officer managed to avoid crashing into the back of the Buick, according to police.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Among other duties, Zilber worked to maintain the forest grounds and educate students and residents on sustainable forest management, according to a news release from Evers' office.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • With more than 520,000 acres of dense forest and its location near the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the park is a prime spot for leaf-peeping.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Millions of miles of flying feels like an adequate amount of time to observe travelers struggle with bulky items, search endlessly for a gadget in a tangle of monochromatic accessories, and look longingly at their seatmate who seems to have it all together.
    Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Whether the Northen Sea Route catches on depends on a tangle of factors.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Henrot positions it such that its indented form emphasizes the dark thicket of his pubic hair au naturel.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Then, as if that were not enough excitement for any hunter at one time, a big mule-deer buck broke out of the thicket and bounded away to my left, straight for Sally.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.
    Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2025
  • It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
    Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
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“Boscage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boscage. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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