How to Use brushy in a Sentence

brushy

adjective
  • Such ticks tend to hang out in grassy, brushy, or wooded areas.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Don’t hike in overgrown brushy areas or on trails where ticks may hide.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
  • The creek sparkled between brushy banks filled with birds and aquatic insects.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Our little group followed a guide along a winding trail through brushy forest.
    — Craig Stanford, Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • From the Mescal Trailhead, the trail rambles through brushy high-desert scrub.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Avoid wooded and brushy areas with high grass, when possible.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Wear sturdy boots and loose-fitting long pants and do not wear sandals or flip-flops in brushy areas.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Flames that might have stayed close to the forest floor are climbing up crowded, brushy forests into the tree canopy.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Tight, brushy mountain streams reward shorter rods that can sneak casts under branches.
    — Francesca Krempa, Outside, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Grassy, woody and brushy areas with ample foliage for hiding in are where ticks most often reside.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
  • The man continuing running through a brushy area and toward railroad tracks. Police discharged their Taser, but only one probe hit the man’s coat.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The fire reached about 40 acres in a spot where brushy canyons, ridges and thick palm tree groves meet with hilltop communities.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Generally, ticks dwell in grassy, brushy or wooded areas.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In order to avoid contact with ticks, avoid wooded and brushy areas with high grass and leaf litter, and walk in the center of trails.
    — Emily Vetter, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • Some hikers prefer a snugger fit to prevent snagging when hiking in brushy areas.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Edge habitat — brushy areas where animals can stay close to cover — are also lively.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The trail leads through some beautiful old-growth forest and across a brushy meadow along the way, with a couple of bonus viewpoints through the trees.
    — oregonlive, 7 July 2021
  • Beaver ponds with brushy cover offer good hunting, as do overgrown farm fields, old apple orchards, and young forests near water.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Any open, sunny hillsides with enough low grassy or brushy cover to hide a bunny are great bets now, too, as loafing rabbits will soak up the warm rays.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
  • When emergency crews responded, firefighters found the plane fully engulfed in flames in a brushy area.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In June of 2019, the teen lured a woman to an overgrown brushy area near a former golfing range.
    — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Most folks have only heard them, but sightings of the Canis latrans are not uncommon in the brushy trails of many area parks.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Sweet and very mildly drying on the palate with herbaceous notes of cut grass, brushy/forest floor, and vegetative flavors of green beans.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Each spring on the brushy banks of the San Juan River, a bucket brigade assembles twice daily.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Their territory often includes wetlands and brushy areas, even along highways and rail lines.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Later still, a nearly 10-foot-tall canvas in a thin cloud of brushy gray color is overlaid with a golden metallic grid.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Living mostly in brushy areas and woodlands in low elevation, the animals largely prey on deer and elk.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026
  • After eight days, a volunteer spotted Johnson-Barr’s body in a brushy hollow outside the city.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The shop grew into the nation’s largest manufacturer of chaps, the leather leggings that protect a rider from brushy terrain.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Pheasants, which are about the size and shape of a chicken, eat insects and seeds and live in mixed habitats like brushy meadows, hedgerows, marshes, and areas where woods and fields meet.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 1 Apr. 2021

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