How to Use the bush in a Sentence

the bush

noun
  • Ruff didn’t beat around the bush with that.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Des turns the car around and speeds up through the bush.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 2023-05-06
  • Coffee is served out in the bush.
    — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Skims is bringing the bush back.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Any minute the bush squirrels above would sound the alarm.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Straight, to the point, and no beating around the bush.
    — Tanay Howard, Parents, 2023-12-08
  • Opening the lodge patio door, we were hit with the sounds of the bush.
    — Lucy Edwards, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-12-16
  • Ward didn’t beat around the bush in the postgame press conference.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The end of her stick splintered on the ground like tree trunks snapping in the bush.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • So there has to be a way of tending the grass around it as a way of getting close to the bush.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2023-11-09
  • However, there’s nothing like a gin and tonic to end the day in the bush.
    — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • An hour into the bush and a dung beetle had already pushed its namesake orb across our path.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Their necks were broken and they were dragged away to the bush to be impaled, their bowels punctured.
    — Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The plant needs as much foliage as possible to shade the bush and prevent sunburn damage on the canes.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Barron said the 50 children escaped their captors by jumping over a wall and running into the bush.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Cal picks her up in a muddy old 4×4, then takes her on a bumpy ride through the bush during which the tension quickly heightens between them.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Here, Mercury refuses to beat around the bush, cutting deep into the heart of what’s really going on.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The team can also arrange for room service, breakfast in the bush, sundowners, and special occasion meals.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Materials used for the rebuild were chosen for durability in the bush, such as aluminum and timber cladding.
    — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • It can’t possibly be done, many mathematicians think, so best to leave infinity hiding in the bush.
    — Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Set out on game drives in the morning, afternoon or evening with meals in the bush, or see the wildlife from horseback, mountain bike or the hotel’s private helicopter.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In the 1950s, Norman Carr decided people didn’t need rifles to be in the bush.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of conquest, the focus was intimacy—feeling the land under your feet, learning animal tracks, listening to the bush itself.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Guests can spend all day with the rhinos roaming the park, opt to wait out a storm and go on a night drive, or enjoy sundowners on a boat or in the bush, allowing for a completely custom experience.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Not that the bush honeysuckles are necessarily particularly good for birds.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Blueberry bushes with upright growth, like Rabbiteye and Southern Highbush, perform well after thinning overly long canes from the top of the bush.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The release sparked widespread conversation about the cultural state of the bush, but no reaction was swifter than that of the sapphic internet, where posters were quick to point out that the bush has long been the fashion in lesbian circles.
    — Quispe López, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
  • And for a surprise dinner in the bush, shared with Ngilah and our andBeyond virtual safari guide, Kristen Harrison, our table for four was set up under the stars.
    — Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Stephanie Kienle Gonzalez and her husband Chris Gonzalez fell in love with South Africa—they were struck by land and the bush life surrounding the city—10 years ago.
    — Sophia Herring, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • File photo of a Cape or African buffalo, Syncerus caffer, hiding in the bush in Samburu National Park, Kenya, taken in 2009.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025

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