Example sentences for: shrub

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

  • He reproached the much beloved garden at Dumbarton Oaks for its limited plant palate, especially what he referred to as the "forsythia mess"--a hillside covered in the yellow, early spring flowering shrub that others consider a bold sweep of color.

  • But hardy performer also suggests hardy annual and, as any gardener knows, the laurel is a shrub that survives out of doors throughout the winter, just as a maid-of-all-work minicar has to fetch and carry in all weathers.

  • Or, to use another simile, they are like shrubs transplanted to an alien climate: sometimes the shrub loses its spreading habit or becomes dwarfed; sometimes it expands luxuriantly, taking up more space than when on native ground; occasionally, it keeps its original shape and size.

  • Far more interesting, though, was the idea of conservative activist government that the shrub articulated.

  • The origins of lytico-bodig on Guam are still mysterious (as is the fact that, apparently, no one born after 1950 or so has been afflicted); there are many theories afloat, one of them involving the culinary use of the fruit of the cycad, a genus of fernlike shrub that is among the oldest forms of life on the planet.


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