How to Use rosebush in a Sentence

rosebush

noun
  • The pink rosebush beside the brick front stoop waits for the sun.
    Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • The rosebush will grow taller, produce more leaves and, therefore, more blooms.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • The sky was gray, and overgrown grass pathways and thorny pink rosebushes smelled damp from the deluge of rain.
    Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 1 July 2017
  • But murder a rosebush, and there’s no hiding your crime.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Her gut clenched every time a raindrop bounced off a rosebush leaf.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • Maintain healthy foliage The rosebush needs its leaves for the production of energy and also to provide shade for the canes and the base of the bush.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • Recover among the 8,000 rosebushes of the Princess Grace Rose Garden.
    Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 5 June 2017
  • Recover among the 8,000 rosebushes of the Princess Grace Rose Garden.
    Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 5 June 2017
  • In the commotion, Rachel stepped behind a large rosebush and took her ectophone from her purse.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • There are too many memories here — his dad planted the mango tree and rosebushes in front.
    Brittny Mejia, Joe Mozingo, www.latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Vamigas pulled the star of its Rosa Mosqueta Serum, rosa mosqueta oil, straight from a Chilean rosebush.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Every year, my Burgundy Iceberg rosebush treats me to a few white blooms among the big masses of its deep purple clusters.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Seniors often love spending time in their yards, so a rosebush, new plants, or a birdfeeder can bring joy.
    Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The result, as fall approaches, is that our rosebushes are taller and the stems are skinnier and leggier.
    Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Something for the yard: Seniors often love spending time in their yards, so a rosebush, new plants or a birdfeeder can bring joy.
    Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Clara Doutly, 98, was one of the working women who had a rosebush dedicated to her.
    Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Officials tried planting rosebushes at the site near the I-405 interchange first, but campers tore them out.
    oregonlive.com, 18 July 2019
  • Walking up the paver stone walkway is a semiprivate yard with green landscaping and rosebushes.
    Bang Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • The story was about a little girl named Rosie who fell into a magical rosebush and got to run around playing with all the magical rose creatures.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Horticulturist Mike Bone and his team traveled to Camp Amache last fall to examine the rosebush and take cuttings.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
  • Woolf Leyton Roses harvests 5 million to 6 million rosebushes a year, which are sold to garden stores around the country.
    Sonja Haller, azcentral, 16 Feb. 2015
  • Deep in the center of the rosebush and hidden from plain view, pests and disease can get a surreptitious foothold that can end up being very challenging to your entire rose garden.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
  • A tiny park, with two benches and some grass and rosebushes, has seemingly grown in front of the walls, providing a respite for visitors to one of the city’s busiest hospitals, around the corner, or the Public Health Ministry, across the road.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 16 May 2016
  • Another rosebush in the video acts as a sort of pet sentry, sensing when a cat scurries out a door and sending an alert to its owner's computer so the fugitive feline can be retrieved.
    NBC News, 19 June 2019
  • This sort of treatment is what might encourage a group of NIMH rodents to run away and create their own organized society under a rosebush somewhere.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
  • Cement lions perch alongside clusters of overgrown rosebushes and beds of blackeyed Susans.
    Eileen Townsend, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
  • This new rosebush can be introduced commercially as a new variety.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Metchnikoff immediately performed the experiment, using a thorn from a rosebush in his garden.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Amid the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, home and business owners are reportedly planting cacti, thorny rosebushes and other deterrents to keep the homeless from sleeping in front of their property.
    Fox News, 11 July 2019
  • Throughout Palomar there are plantings of hardwoods, succulents, proteas, cycads, pollinator plants, rosebushes, palms, bamboos and legumes.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2019

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