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  • noun Plural form of thornbush.

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Examples

  • The soldiers were able to dine well at first on rabbits that snared themselves in the plentiful thornbushes as they fled from the army, but soon even these were left behind.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The soldiers were able to dine well at first on rabbits that snared themselves in the plentiful thornbushes as they fled from the army, but soon even these were left behind.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • To travel the Makran coast is to experience the windy, liberating flatness of Yemen and Oman and their soaring, sawtooth ramparts the color of sandpaper, rising sheer off a desert floor pockmarked with thornbushes.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

    Wonk Room » Archbishop Of Canterbury: God Has Given Humanity The ‘Terrible Freedom’ To Destroy The Gift Of His Creation 2009

  • The soldiers were able to dine well at first on rabbits that snared themselves in the plentiful thornbushes as they fled from the army, but soon even these were left behind.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • To travel the Makran coast is to experience the windy, liberating flatness of Yemen and Oman and their soaring, sawtooth ramparts the color of sandpaper, rising sheer off a desert floor pockmarked with thornbushes.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • David looked ahead and saw a landscape of sandy hillocks, dotted with thornbushes and olive trees.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • David looked ahead and saw a landscape of sandy hillocks, dotted with thornbushes and olive trees.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • To travel the Makran coast is to experience the windy, liberating flatness of Yemen and Oman and their soaring, sawtooth ramparts the color of sandpaper, rising sheer off a desert floor pockmarked with thornbushes.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • To travel the Makran coast is to experience the windy, liberating flatness of Yemen and Oman and their soaring, sawtooth ramparts the color of sandpaper, rising sheer off a desert floor pockmarked with thornbushes.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

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