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  • noun Plural form of bullrush.

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Examples

  • In this fashion their passage caused very little disturbance amongst the "bullrushes," as Jimmy persisted in calling the thick growth.

    Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet 1909

  • The way he looked at Maureen made me think he was on the African plains, skulking between bullrushes.

    Stars & Fireflies billy robinson 2011

  • Ravens 20 Patriots 23, 2:46 4th quarter Vince Wilfork– who made the tackle on Rice on third down – bullrushes his way straight through the middle of the line grabbing a fist full of Flacco's shirt and forcing the quarterback into a hurried lob downfield which falls incomplete by the left sideline.

    Baltimore Ravens 20 New England Patriots 23 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2012

  • Overhanging trees, bullrushes, lily-pads and water-rats.

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • The Azraq wetland, an area of pools surrounded by tall grasses, bullrushes and reeds, is one of Jordan's six nature parks, established by the country's Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature.

    Jordan's green crusade 2010

  • At this time of year, the bullrushes (aka cat tails) were “ripe” and ready to burst.

    Tipping : Bev Vincent 2008

  • I don't live in the Bible Belt, so I lack a certain kind of evangelical student, but I do have students who are very active in their churches, who occasionally make arguments based on "what the Bible teaches," and who not only have not read the entire Bible, but who barely know its major stories; I've gotten blank looks when I mention Moses in the bullrushes, or the parable of the prodigal son.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010

  • I don't live in the Bible Belt, so I lack a certain kind of evangelical student, but I do have students who are very active in their churches, who occasionally make arguments based on "what the Bible teaches," and who not only have not read the entire Bible, but who barely know its major stories; I've gotten blank looks when I mention Moses in the bullrushes, or the parable of the prodigal son.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Flavia 2010

  • He was at a distance, but I could feel his bullet-hole eyes casing me from just back of some bullrushes that were all busted open and shedding their stuffing.

    The Bog at the End of the World 2009

  • I like the last panel where Fat Jimmy bullrushes two of the goons.

    DC Fatties: The Fat Boy of Metropolis Brian Hughes 2008

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