How to Use hedgerow in a Sentence

hedgerow

noun
  • The hedgerows always taller than your head.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
  • How about in the hedgerow between our yard and the back field?
    — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
  • That’s one way to clear out any of those pesky bustles in your hedgerow.
    — Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2022
  • Dart between the rows of beans, along the ditches, down the hedgerows.
    — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • On warm summer evenings, the fields and hedgerows hum with new insect life.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Find a tree, hedgerow, even a piece of farm equipment to break up your outline.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Stream beds will hide the sound of your footsteps, and hedgerows can break up your outline.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Our idea of British countryside is a soft place of hedgerows or fields.
    — Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The bedside wall ran through the pastures to the hedgerow, which stretched along the wall with the door.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • New lands were brought under the plow and hedgerows were ripped up, leading to erosion.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
  • And a thick hedgerow is no deterrent to foxes sneaking in to snatch small lambs.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When the birds hooked over the corn or hedgerow, all the hunters stood up with their 10 gauges and shot them straight up.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Urban sprawl gives way to farm buildings, hedgerows and Range Rovers.
    — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Egan describes the palate as having hedgerow dark fruit and honey flavors.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The soldiers quickly ducked into a patch of hedgerows about seven feet apart and fired back.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
  • As the hedgerows become a blur, the snarl of the engine hardens to a blood-and-thunder roar.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • Yellow-marshy camo clothing won't match an evergreen hedgerow.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In the hedgerows, the fecundity of the pest is soon apparent.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Syrupy aromas that include a spring hedgerow and its fruit of wild strawberries, as well as black currant juice.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • What nature does is to sweep across the land in curves and clusters and groups, not in hedgerows and foundation plantings.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2025
  • Piano jazz drifted among the grape vines, hedgerows, and bright-pink mandevilla.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Curbed, 22 June 2026
  • My understanding is that this plant has been used for hedgerows to enclose fields in Europe.
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
  • His keen eye quickly notices a dead shrub in a hedgerow, a tree limb that could pose a safety hazard or a patch of grass that hasn’t been trimmed.
    — Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • My husband did better – barely nipping the hedgerows and never crying out.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • In modern landscape design, there are plenty of reasons to consider a hedgerow of your own.
    — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Farmers have also expanded their fields, plowing former hedgerows and verges.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Ellis followed directions to the spot and crossed a field punctuated by hedgerows.
    — Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • Aromas of a wild hedgerow as well as chocolate bourbon biscuits, red cherries, black berries, wild strawberries and plums.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • 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

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