How to Use bushwhack in a Sentence

bushwhack

verb

• The group bushwhacked through the jungle.
• They used the controversy as an opportunity to bushwhack their political opponents.
• This new one will bushwhack a path into the woods and pamper your ass on a run to the mall.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2020
• Bob and Sarah had to bushwhack around numerous logs across the trail or cut them with handsaws.
  — Cindy Chojnacky, idahostatesman, 30 Oct. 2017
• Your hands need to bushwhack, grip onto sturdy trees, and point out the soaring eagle ahead.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 29 May 2021
• And the Freedmen’s Bureau had radical lawyers who bushwhacked it.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Cassens and Groot were among scores of volunteer searchers who had bushwhacked for days, looking for the elderly couple.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• The green pins are regular ranger patrols—known as Mamba teams—six rangers to a team, bushwhacking through the park on five-day rotations.
  — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• The Ducks figure to be in an ornery mood after getting bushwhacked Saturday night at Arizona State.
  — oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
• The rock plate stood up to hours of bushwhacking with a 60-pound pack in Colorado’s Park Range, and the fat lugs on the Vibram outsole gave us confidence on slick roots and gravelly paths.
  — Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• That means hikers are sometimes required to bushwhack to get to waypoints such as the summit of El Cajon Mountain east of Lakeside.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• Mine seemed unaffected by a 40-pound guide pack or bushwhacking through alder and willow.
  — Andrew Skurka, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2019
• While bushwhacking through hellish yew thickets, the sling kept twisting and finally unscrewed the swivel stud.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2020
• Or simply study the terrain and bushwhack them along a ridge spine or other terrain funnel, without ever making a call.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 May 2020
• But bushwhacking with a dog team is full-on collaboration.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2017
• But since the first track was discovered in 2005, researchers have slogged through raging rivers, bushwhacked through head-high willow thickets, and braved blizzards and thunderstorms to discover new specimens.
  — Kate Siber, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• Instead, Aslan bushwhacks his way through intellectual history in pursuit of his point.
  — Emma Green, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• Even if a suggestive cluster of Maya community buildings and a fort popped up on a future lidar map, archaeologists would still have to bushwhack there to excavate them.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 5 Sep. 2019
• Flylow also included an internal beacon pocket in the leg, adding utility for backcountry skiers who already plan to bushwhack through deadfall in search of untouched powder.
  — Nick Cote, Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2019
• To get a clear picture of an emergency in progress, officers often had to bushwhack through dozens of byzantine databases and feeds from far-flung sensors, including gunshot detectors, license plate readers, and public and private security cameras.
  — Arthur Holland Michel, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• Think about Photoshop or Excel: Both are so massively capable that using them properly requires bushwhacking through a dense jungle of keyboard shortcuts, menu trees, and impossible-to-find toolbars.
  — David Pierce, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2015
• Be prepared for bushwhacking, road walking, scrambling, and various networks of unsigned forest roads through grizzly country—this makes navigation tools, bear spray, and mountaineering skills necessities.
  — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 14 May 2018

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024