How to Use hedgerow in a Sentence

hedgerow

noun
  • Stream beds will hide the sound of your footsteps, and hedgerows can break up your outline.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
  • How about in the hedgerow between our yard and the back field?
    cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The bedside wall ran through the pastures to the hedgerow, which stretched along the wall with the door.
    The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Dart between the rows of beans, along the ditches, down the hedgerows.
    Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • That’s one way to clear out any of those pesky bustles in your hedgerow.
    Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2022
  • As the hedgerows become a blur, the snarl of the engine hardens to a blood-and-thunder roar.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • On warm summer evenings, the fields and hedgerows hum with new insect life.
    Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Find a tree, hedgerow, even a piece of farm equipment to break up your outline.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Our idea of British countryside is a soft place of hedgerows or fields.
    Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Urban sprawl gives way to farm buildings, hedgerows and Range Rovers.
    The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • New lands were brought under the plow and hedgerows were ripped up, leading to erosion.
    Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The poem opens with the lines, This lonely hill was always dear to me/ and this hedgerow, which cuts off the view/ of so much of the last horizon.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 June 2020
  • In the hedgerows, the fecundity of the pest is soon apparent.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Plus, there aren’t 10 hunters laying in the middle of the decoys or crouching in A-Frames in a hedgerow with their heads peeking out the top of the blind.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Muscle Shoals, there was a bustle in your hedgerow Tuesday.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 18 May 2022
  • Egan describes the palate as having hedgerow dark fruit and honey flavors.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • His keen eye quickly notices a dead shrub in a hedgerow, a tree limb that could pose a safety hazard or a patch of grass that hasn’t been trimmed.
    Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The course blasts through farmlands and villages, runs past hedgerows and stone fences and lifts from sea level to 1,300 feet on the island's Snaefell Mountain.
    Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
  • The western opening of the tunnel is now exposed and within inches of a short hedgerow in the Merrick's lush garden grounds.
    Scott Tady, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • My understanding is that this plant has been used for hedgerows to enclose fields in Europe.
    oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
  • But the structure itself is remarkably private, set far back from the PCH and bordered on both sides by tall hedgerows.
    Variety, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019
  • So grab a shotgun and work over every tangle of hedgerow brush and field-edge bramble, and stomp on every pile of timber slash.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 3 Feb. 2020
  • My first afternoon, on a walk across miles of old hedgerows, a gypsy mutt chased me across the grass, smiling at me, nipping my heels and waiting for the game to start again.
    William Goodman, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The mother who takes long walks on the socially distanced beach, darting off the path and behind a hedgerow to avoid a squad of longboarding bros, sans masks.
    Sunset Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • As these landscapes bent to humans' will, the birds followed suit, building their nests in hedgerows and eating croplands' insects and seeds.
    Tim Graham, National Geographic, 1 June 2018
  • Narrow, winding lanes, edged with hedgerows, will lead you to the bucolic and historic enclave in just 15 minutes.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The master plan incorporated a 10-acre green roof—the heart of a system of wetland gardens, porous paving, hedgerows and bioswales.
    William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
  • Behind the hay was an opening in the hedgerow, a path surrounded by grass and kept carefully trampled by Aestas and Ander.
    cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Ellis followed directions to the spot and crossed a field punctuated by hedgerows.
    Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • The entire property, which spans three-quarters of a flat acre, is ringed by tall hedgerows for residential tranquility.
    James McClain, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023

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