How to Use underbrush in a Sentence

underbrush

noun
  • We made our way through the thick underbrush.
  • To step off the trail and find his way through the underbrush.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The setting was an open field near woods with thick underbrush.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Their partners, known as swampers, grabbed at underbrush and dragged it away.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Avoid tall grass, weeds and heavy underbrush where snakes may hide during warmer parts of the day.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 9 May 2018
  • There was a sudden rustling in the dry underbrush and a flash of color.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Huber clawed through underbrush to reach her.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The burrs and thorns from the underbrush wouldn’t be removed from our shoes and clothing for weeks.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The terrain was rocky, dusty and uneven, mixed with rough underbrush.
    — Peter Prengaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Boy moose galloped within a few feet of me and then was gone, off into the underbrush.
    — Dara Dokas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Surfers found Harvey the next day in the underbrush of a nearby park.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 13 Nov. 2025
  • If there are no fires, the underbrush and trees grow to fuel even bigger wildfires.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019
  • They were told to hide in the underbrush and await the return of the smugglers, who never came back.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 30 July 2017
  • Others tried to dart past the patrols through thickets of underbrush and trees.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The plan will speed up projects to clear dense forest underbrush that has fanned raging fires near the world's largest trees.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • The remnants of the work canal are also still there, off in the underbrush to the east of the oak alley.
    — Andrew Boyd, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The trail traces the rim of the small canyon before plunging through mixed forest heavy with underbrush.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • There’s no one crashing through the underbrush, looking for the idol within view of camp.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • After a week’s worth of rustling in the offensive underbrush, things went silent once again.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • In the worst-case scenario, flames pushed by afternoon winds swarm through the underbrush.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • Large eyes with more rod than cone cells allow the night-hunting birds to spot prey rustling in the underbrush, even in dim light.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Movement was everywhere – in the thick underbrush, along the trunks of plants and trees, up in the canopy of leaves.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • There isn’t a single water hazard on the course and, while there are lots of trees, the underbrush is not very thick.
    — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • Her employers had been shot and left in their car, which someone set ablaze and pushed into the underbrush.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The other, wounded in the arm and back, fled for miles through forest and underbrush and is now in hiding.
    — Scott Wallace, National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Fresh snow lined the mountaintops and the rising sun sparkled through the low underbrush lining the trail.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • The team also worked hard on the landscaping, clearing away underbrush, leaves and trash.
    — baltimoresun.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Ten years ago, the land was undeveloped, a tangle of palms and underbrush.
    — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2026
  • He was taken by surprise, officials said, and tried to crawl away through the underbrush, but a search dog caught him.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • For thousands of years, fires had burned the forests every decade or so, clearing out the underbrush but not harming large trees.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021

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