How to Use burning bush in a Sentence

burning bush

noun
  • No burning bush comes to advise Esther on the best course of action.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
  • Best planted in the fall or spring, burning bush grows at a moderate pace, adding about a foot of growth per year.
    — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Leaves from a burning bush shrub blaze with red color, witch hazel beams yellow or orange, and of course maples come in all three.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Why, out of all places, did God reveal himself to Moses through the sneh (burning bush)?
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Some were simply impossible, like pieces of straw from the manger or ashes from the burning bush that spoke to Moses.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • There are no burning bushes, lightning bolts, or heavenly voices.
    — Terry O'Hagan, JSTOR Daily, 17 Mar. 2015
  • The invasiveness of burning bush has led to major movements to exclude it from the landscape trade.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Those have a burning bush design and were made from microsuede, a quarter-inch-thick synthetic fabric that is now hard to find.
    — Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There are also shrubs to avoid such as burning bush, privet and nandina, which are some of the worst non-native shrubs, the experts said.
    — Nina Tran, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Three students steam-bent the branches of burning bush into curved shapes and then lashed them together with kudzu fibers to create an arched structure.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The prophet Elijah’s encounter with God involved a cave, Dosick notes, and Moses had a burning bush.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2021
  • Its grand opening will feature live music, face painting and free refreshments, plus plenty of docents will be on hand to field your burning bush queries.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Not miracles like a burning bush or a docile teenager, but highly improbable objects.
    — Seth Shostak, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2011
  • The tower’s height prompts comparisons with the Tower of Babel, its blinding light with the burning bush.
    — Patrick Kingsley Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The voice from the burning bush, but instead of a bush, the message was coming from that marvelous smile, the familiar, kind eyes, the perfect hair — and that twinkle.
    — Alexander Chee, Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Grow favorites such as mint in containers and opt for sterile versions of butterfly bush and winged burning bush to avoid invasive issues.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 16 Feb. 2026
  • And most of us don’t get burning bushes, seas divided in two or even our neighbors showing up with $8,000 and a bottle of wine.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Coleus ‘Red Head’ in my garden a few years ago reached about 42 inches tall and looked more like a burning bush in fall color than an annual.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In a foundational scene of monotheism, Moses doffs his kicks to approach the burning bush; shoes are, by their pedestrian nature, unfit for holy ground.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • Similarly, God first appears to Moshe in a burning bush telling him to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Once a go-to shrub for its brilliant fall color, burning bush (Euonymus alatus) is now widely recognized as invasive.
    — Adrienne Jordan, Martha Stewart, 8 May 2026
  • Examples are amur maple, burning bush, lily-of-the-valley, orange daylily, creeping bellflower and various barberry.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • Hoosiers are also battling English ivy, Canada thistle, white mulberry, burning bush, and autumn olive.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 24 Nov. 2025
  • After killing a slave master, Moses flees into the desert, and encounters a burning bush of God revealing himself to Moses.
    — Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • God appears to Moses in the burning bush in Exodus 3, defying all gender categories.
    — Annie Selak, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Your encounter with this blazing sculptural form could be the exhibition’s equivalent of Moses coming across the miraculous burning bush.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • For many years there has been a burning bush variety quietly circulating around the nursery and botanical garden businesses.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2017
  • To get the fall color of burning bush without the ecological destruction, go with chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) instead.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Other plants that can trigger fall allergies include burning bush, cocklebur, pigweed, sagebrush and tumbleweed.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Burning Bush Known for its striking bright red foliage in the fall, burning bush (Euonymus alatus) makes a stunning accent plant for some parts of the landscape.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2026

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