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.
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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
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Bob and Sarah had to bushwhack around numerous logs across the trail or cut them with handsaws.
—Cindy Chojnacky, idahostatesman, 30 Oct. 2017
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Your hands need to bushwhack, grip onto sturdy trees, and point out the soaring eagle ahead.
—Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 29 May 2021
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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
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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
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The Ducks figure to be in an ornery mood after getting bushwhacked Saturday night at Arizona State.
—oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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Mine seemed unaffected by a 40-pound guide pack or bushwhacking through alder and willow.
—Andrew Skurka, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2019
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While bushwhacking through hellish yew thickets, the sling kept twisting and finally unscrewed the swivel stud.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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Instead, Aslan bushwhacks his way through intellectual history in pursuit of his point.
—Emma Green, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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