Example sentences for: bough

How can you use “bough” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!

  • Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.

  • But most of the elements didn't come out of The Golden Bough . They came out of all the other successful pseudo-mythical contrivances of American popular culture--Westerns, Flash Gordon , The Godfather , and so on.


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