How to Use rosebush in a Sentence

rosebush

noun
  • The pink rosebush beside the brick front stoop waits for the sun.
    — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • The rosebush will grow taller, produce more leaves and, therefore, more blooms.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • Why have some of the blooms on my rosebush taken on a different color and form?
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The sky was gray, and overgrown grass pathways and thorny pink rosebushes smelled damp from the deluge of rain.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 1 July 2017
  • There are too many memories here — his dad planted the mango tree and rosebushes in front.
    — Brittny Mejia, Joe Mozingo, www.latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Seniors often love spending time in their yards, so a rosebush, new plants, or a birdfeeder can bring joy.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The streets were flat, there were few trees, all the houses had short driveways and blooming rosebushes outside.
    — Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • There’s an interesting bird nest in a rosebush, maybe 40 inches off the ground.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 23 June 2025
  • My mother planted every rosebush and flowering vine in the garden, her knees in the dirt.
    — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • Walking up the paver stone walkway is a semiprivate yard with green landscaping and rosebushes.
    — Bang Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • Like all shrubs, trees and perennials, rosebushes benefit from a layer of mulch over their roots.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In the commotion, Rachel stepped behind a large rosebush and took her ectophone from her purse.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • Some rosebushes are grafted, meaning that a plant of one variety has been joined to the roots of another type.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Plantings include a tall magnolia tree, a fruit-bearing lemon tree and rosebushes.
    — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The result, as fall approaches, is that our rosebushes are taller and the stems are skinnier and leggier.
    — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Even the rosebushes Hardin once earned the privilege of pruning looked defeated.
    — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Every year, my Burgundy Iceberg rosebush treats me to a few white blooms among the big masses of its deep purple clusters.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • This new rosebush can be introduced commercially as a new variety.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The real culprit is a microscopic bug called the eriophyid mite, which feeds on the rosebushes and transfers the disease from plant to plant.
    — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 16 May 2026
  • On the pretty roof vividly hued geraniums are arranged in an eclectic mix of pots and urns, set under rosebushes and citrus and olive trees.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Clara Doutly, 98, was one of the working women who had a rosebush dedicated to her.
    — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The main courtyard, where so many people had been beaten and hanged, became a charming village square with a lawn, rosebushes and a music pavilion.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Maintain healthy foliage The rosebush needs its leaves for the production of energy and also to provide shade for the canes and the base of the bush.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • The story was about a little girl named Rosie who fell into a magical rosebush and got to run around playing with all the magical rose creatures.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • How to Take a Rose Stem Cutting A clean, healthy stem cutting can form the basis of a brand-new rosebush.
    — Kelly Manning, Martha Stewart, 23 June 2026
  • Officials tried planting rosebushes at the site near the I-405 interchange first, but campers tore them out.
    — oregonlive.com, 18 July 2019
  • Vamigas pulled the star of its Rosa Mosqueta Serum, rosa mosqueta oil, straight from a Chilean rosebush.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Cement lions perch alongside clusters of overgrown rosebushes and beds of blackeyed Susans.
    — Eileen Townsend, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For the rest of the country, the bloom period starts in spring about 6 weeks after rosebushes come out of dormancy and lasts through summer and sometimes into fall.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 June 2026
  • Deep in the center of the rosebush and hidden from plain view, pests and disease can get a surreptitious foothold that can end up being very challenging to your entire rose garden.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022

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