How to Use bramble in a Sentence

bramble

noun
  • Nicholas trips over a bramble, falls to his hands and knees in the soaking grass.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Nicholas trips over a bramble, falls to his hands and knees in the soaking grass.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The vines, brambles and saplings growing where fields and pastures once stood pull the piles of stones apart.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Netting and brambles are laid over the top in places to obscure the contours.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • They are now buried in the local cemetery under stones and brambles.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Learning how to spot their glint of colour, even in the deepest reaches of the brambles.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The goats will eat the brambles and poop on the lawn; the nutrients will go back into the soil.
    — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • Then, from thorny bramble, the wildcat exhales in a guttural hiss.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The rest of it is berries left in the bramble after a visit from midday starlings.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • The path to Cho’s cardamom wove upward through waist-high brambles that scratched at my bare legs.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Brambles and bushes carpeted old orchard lands on sides of the trail.
    — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
  • For long stretches, Fish and I walked in the bike lane, or in the bramble by the side of the road.
    — Swan Huntley, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • The nightingale turned abruptly, flying to a low bramble just inches from the fox’s snout.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Homesteads fan out into the hilly bramble, connected by rugged paths.
    — Annie Lowrey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Foliage and brambles line the lip of the trench to obscure its contours to attackers.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The recordings are still cryptic, a hazy bramble of ambience.
    — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Oftentimes, these fill up with briars, brambles, grasses, and even forbs.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Garden gloves are a great way to protect yourself from thorns, brambles, and scratchy plants—and keep your hands cleaner, too.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Magic promotes the encroachment of the brambles, a kind of killer kudzu that puts those who touch it into a death-like sleep.
    — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • 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, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The 2019 is dark garnet with aromas of black plum, black currant, and a touch of bramble.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 June 2024
  • Slightly oaky and hefty aromas that include bramble and blackberries, some cocoa as well as dusty earth and pine.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Right out of the glass is smoky bacon, a meaty iodine and some earthy bramble—all pleasingly followed onto the palate.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • The state stopped maintaining it in 2010, and the land lies covered in brambles, mud and rocks.
    — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, 16 June 2019
  • Across a gurgling brook, up a muddy slope, over mossy tree limbs, through a tangle of brambles and vines, the dogs covered acres of terrain.
    — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • On the nose, notes of caramel corn, rich oak, sugar plum, lots of clove, vanilla creme wafers, pipe tobacco, bramble fruit and sawdust.
    — Chris Perugini, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That’s a fair question, even though its fatuousness should have sent Will fleeing into the brambles.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • The narrow footway was a good place to spot herons and it was surrounded with brambles so thick that two people could barely walk side-by-side.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Skylarks rise from the sharp purple bramble spreading down the sheer cliff, and the sea slowly evaporates into cerulean.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022
  • Often reaching up to six feet tall, these bushes, also known as brambles, have sharp thorns covering their branches.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 June 2026

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