How to Use bushy in a Sentence
bushy
adjective-
The plant is very bushy and grows to a height of 18 inches.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022 -
Princess the cat’s tail was bushy with fright, and Fluffy the dog was barking.
— Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019 -
The squirrel’s is big and bushy, the rat’s is naked, scaly, and wormlike.
— Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 8 July 2022 -
Eyebrow trends have ranged from thin and long to thick and bushy.
— Julia Naftulin, Health, 27 Feb. 2023 -
The name comes from Love’s reddish-blonde hair and Brown’s bushy beard.
— Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2020 -
There was a young man who wore a turban and a soft bushy beard.
— Celeste Ng, Bon Appétit, 23 Oct. 2019 -
Make sure to leave a few hairs underneath the tail of the brow to give it a bushy look.
— Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 8 May 2014 -
Some trimmed their bushy beards and changed their clothes in efforts to blend in.
— Andrew Katz, TIME.com, 17 July 2017 -
Since then, the trees have bounced back, their tops bushy green, though their trunks are still charred.
— Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022 -
So if Austin has bushy ‘60s hair then maybe Dr. Evil should have no hair.
— Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 11 June 2019 -
Commuters will notice the bushy 15-foot-tall plants in fields around the metro area.
— Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019 -
Dads with bushy beards and in Red Wing boots push $1,400 Bugaboo strollers.
— Lysandra Ohrstrom, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2021 -
But maybe that’s where the bushy sideburns came in useful.
— Lawrence Weschler, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2020 -
The stems are medium-short, and the bush is medium-small, rounded and bushy.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021 -
To keep the plants more bushy than lanky, pinch them back in spring and early summer.
— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023 -
That could put the swarms in India’s bushy center very soon.
— New York Times, 27 May 2020 -
Rows of big and bushy plants, their long limbs heavy with flowers, dot the landscape.
— oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020 -
When my boy is old enough to chase bushy tails with me, this will be his rifle.
— Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023 -
The plant forms bushy, upright clumps about 18 inches tall and wide.
— Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 June 2021 -
By the end of summer, the mounded plants grow bushy and can reach 18-24 inches wide.
— Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023 -
One of the officials wore a dark wig and bushy beard and what appeared to be a fake nose.
— Fox News, 13 June 2018 -
Feel the satiny fluff of butterfly weed gone to seed and the silky tufts of shoulder-high bushy bluestem.
— Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021 -
By the end, Mr. Barrymore’s beard hangs on his chest like a great bushy bib.
— Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 25 June 2017 -
Paired with a bushy, untamed beard, the look is very '70s folk singer—only shinier.
— Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 4 Feb. 2018 -
Reeves was seen sporting a wig that added a mullet to the top of his head while the sides were shaved clean and a bushy beard.
— Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2019 -
The big guy with the bushy beard was as good a potential coach-in-waiting as the Buffs could’ve found in a pinch.
— Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Her dad has bushy eyebrows, too, so lucky, lucky, lucky!
— Ronan McKenzie, Allure, 18 July 2018 -
Leto also seemed to have shaved off the bushy beard he’s been sporting on tour with the rock band for the last few months.
— Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2017 -
Ugly, leggy stems can be pruned to the ground, which will encourage a new flush of bushy growth.
— Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024 -
If your mums are super bushy, follow the stem down and cut it below the plant’s current foliage outline or bloom height.
— Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2024
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