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Sentence Examples Each stroke of the blade sent branches crashing into the undergrowth and gouged deep scars into the old oaks. Another time I decided to test my new mountain bike by riding it through some thick undergrowth. The work will involve removing undergrowth, felling scrub and a large bonfire! He said the big cat was gone in a matter of seconds, but he was left shaken as the animal darted away through trees and undergrowth. The woods in front of them degenerated into a thick grove of bamboo and undergrowth. This butterfly always flies close to the ground in shady places or among the jungle undergrowth. They were waiting for her by the time she reached the shady green undergrowth of the oak tree. Trees and dense undergrowth covered the banks all round, giving the place an air of secrecy and isolation from the rest of the world. The event, which takes place twice a year, involves clearing back undergrowth and picking up litter from the area. Garden birds need undergrowth to hide and rest in and nest sites in your large hedge, away from the prying eyes of the magpies. The trees were thicker, the undergrowth denser, but he could follow the tracks well enough. He was leading through dense undergrowth, and she struggled to keep up with his light-footed steps. Around two hectares of undergrowth, gorse bushes and an oak tree were destroyed. The north shores of Loch Maree are rich in oak wood and associated undergrowth and the glens are full of wild flowers. In addition we have taken the opportunity to remove an unused reservoir on the site and to tidy undergrowth within the site boundary. We hope that the undergrowth of limitations is sparse enough to let the flowers of Oz grow unwithered. Jax reached the jungle, diving headlong into the dense undergrowth just as the barrel exploded. Several colossal, yet dormant, volcanoes lorded over a steamy jungle realm of rice paddies, nipa huts, majestic palm trees, and lush undergrowth. Its name is thought to mean the rough ground covered with brushwood and undergrowth. Her body was found buried in dense undergrowth in Donore, Co Meath, more than three weeks later. Show More Sentences While in the undergrowth the bright wrappers would be dirtied by mud and buried by leaves. Her theme is her environment in the rural Kidds Beach area, the mat of undergrowth in the bushy Eastern Cape forests and her deep love for this. He dropped his reins, and his horse began nosing about in the undergrowth for forage. A tradition of illustration and cartooning runs unbroken and often unnoticed through the undergrowth of culture. The forest has little undergrowth and is mainly composed of beech and pine, interspersed with a few oaks and hornbeams. Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air. Far below them in the undergrowth, hare, jungle fowl along with peacock and quail, lived in harmony. It was slow work, for the trees were close, and in places dense with the bare vines and stalks of undergrowth. He changed directions at an immense speed, and pelted off into the jungle, tearing through the undergrowth for his life. Enormous coconut crabs live in the trees and giant monitor lizards stalk in the undergrowth. With such visible history, the sun-blackened ruins poking out from the undergrowth and overgrowth, Nevis is fun to explore. We cleared through this banking last winter, taking out or coppicing overgrown shrubs and controlling the undergrowth of brambles and ferns. The woods are renowned for their porcine mushrooms, but they're not that easy to make out against the rest of the undergrowth. She would always talk to us about our troubles, help us when we cut our knees crawling through the undergrowth and give us ice creams. The thick undergrowth spilled over rotting remnants of fences and a crooked signpost at the intersection of the drive. A plump, fast running bird which keeps to the undergrowth, the black francolin only flies when disturbed. In his book, he takes a platoon through a year of battle in the jungle undergrowth, cowardice, heroism, gallantry and the white feather. Our dogs romp their way over deadfall and through the undergrowth chasing out birds and critters with much glee. Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks. He dragged her body from his car, dumping it in undergrowth where it would not immediately be discovered. Show More Sentences The sponsored walk, in March, gave members the chance to see locks and dry docks, which had been lost in undergrowth for a century. The undergrowth and the weed will be at its heaviest and the natural food available to the fish will be at its most abundant. When they arrived, the 100 ft-long rockery was smothered by undergrowth and the Japanese acers were invisible to the eye. A man crept up behind the girl, putting his hand across her face and dragging her into the undergrowth. The parklike understory turned into rank undergrowth, and the inevitable result was a bushfire that destroyed all the old-growth, hollow trees. Padded feet, keen night vision and sensitive whiskers enable silent movement through dense undergrowth at night. In the undergrowth you can see white anemones, while the marshes are punctuated by kingcups and irises. Let's forget all the woodcraft, sneaking like an Indian through the undergrowth without leaving a mark or making a sound. A loader hands him the gun to bring down the quarry which is then retrieved from the undergrowth by trained hounds. We heard a grunt from the undergrowth, then a rustle of leaves, then something pawing impatiently at the ground. Grumbling, Lacey finally emerged from the undergrowth with a few choice words for Alaindar. The clearing of undergrowth for trek paths and human interference had badly affected the thrushes, babblers, warblers and bulbuls in this region. At the weekend, he goes out and hacks savagely at the undergrowth of the garden. Avid orchid collectors often risk thorny undergrowth, mapepires and tarantulas in search of specimens. After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy. Another trap held a very jumpy bank vole, which was also weighed before it was returned, unharmed, to the undergrowth. Alas, the thickening undergrowth has also proven the undoing of one of the less bright avian ground feeders. She stopped as she came to a small stream meandering through the dense undergrowth. In the thick undergrowth of the Scottish hills the Beardie would control stubborn ewes by bouncing and barking in front of them. Many beaters like to carry their own stick, to help them get up and down banks, as well as for beating the undergrowth. Show More Sentences Pak Rabun was padding along the mulch in the sparse undergrowth when he stopped and went tense. Sheep frighten easily when chased causing them to possibly run into nearby rivers, sheughs or undergrowth. The bomb was used by the air force to blast helicopter landing zones in dense undergrowth. They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside. At all three collection areas the habitat was a pine forest with an undergrowth of heather, blueberries, and ferns. On most days we would wind our way through two or three miles of lush undergrowth, only to find our way blocked by a fallen tree. The offending undergrowth has been causing problems for anglers who have sought help from the town council. We clambered over the stile and onto a well-worn path fringed by dry rotting undergrowth. Most anglers refuse to engage in the severe bushwhacking required to penetrate the thick dense undergrowth surrounding these newly created watercourses. The ravine would also need to be cleared of undergrowth and trees. They say the programme of tree felling and undergrowth clearance is being carried out at the wrong time of year, disturbing kingfishers, otters and bats. It was disappointing to see the extent to which the forest had suffered in a forest fire that had burnt every bit of regenerating vegetation and the delicate undergrowth. I had a white fallow pricket on the estate I'd keepered before this one, and he was gorgeous, didn't stand out as much as you might imagine in the undergrowth either. The undergrowth of thorns and shrubs was bad enough, but in addition the whole place was chock-full of a sort of reed with long leaves about an inch or so broad. The occupants of a house with a large garden found the body of former nurse Mrs Paines hidden in bushes and dense undergrowth at the far end of their property. Her twin sister Carly, who was in the front passenger seat, suffered a perforated eardrum and cuts from the smashed windscreen after the car piled into undergrowth. But the terrain is difficult, threaded with bayous and creeks, frequently flooded, and overridden with dense foliage and impenetrable undergrowth. If we ask for undergrowth to be cut back and litter to be dealt with on a particular path we are as often as not told it is a leisure services responsibility. I follow the paths in the dense undergrowth leading into bushes or spaces under trees hidden from view, particularly in the heavy growth of summer. The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers, muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers. Show More Sentences Suddenly she about-faced and grappled him into the undergrowth. Birch trees grow in extravagant excess, juniper bushes cover the floor and a rich, luxuriant undergrowth of heather, blaeberry and moss gives an impression of timelessness. She continued till the path curved, where she did not follow it, and instead began to bushwhack through the small poplar trees and briar undergrowth of the Island thicket. The gasping clouds of my breath mingled with the fog as I followed the spoor, pushing through denuded branches and the winter skeletons of undergrowth. We hiked single-file through the varzea, a type of jungle whose undergrowth isn't terribly dense and whose floor lay under water several months each year. I was leading the group, hacking through the undergrowth with my trusty knife when all of a sudden we heard a sound, barely perceptible, like a whiffling in the undergrowth. Prolonged dry periods and seasonal high winds in spring help create ideal conditions for wildfire to spread quickly through highly-flammable moorland undergrowth. But this warbler is usually associated with tangled vegetation near water or with reedbeds containing alders and an undergrowth including bramble, nettle and willowherb. As the chimpanzees fed, our research assistants heard gorillas grunting and moving about in the undergrowth below the tree, apparently feeding on fallen fruits. Rudely awoken, the snake uncoiled and whipped into the undergrowth. Our land typifies the condition of the vast forests of the American West, where increasingly crowded undergrowth has fueled the huge fires of recent years. He had mechanical problems which forced him to make four bike changes, and then he crashed for a second time, overshooting a bend and tumbling into the undergrowth. Volunteers cleared trees and undergrowth to uncover historic waterway features, including a dry dock, a saw pit and the remains of the lock keeper's cottage. A small dwarfish creature, largely hidden by rag coverings with a protruding hook of a nose and sparkling yellow eyes emerged from the heavy undergrowth. Now that most of the old undergrowth has been removed the birds are swooping to get all the insects and worms I've disturbed as well as enjoying the occasional dust bath. The undergrowth was, in places, thick, but nowhere impenetrable. There were the small herbivores and scavengers and hunters scuttling in the undergrowth, hiding from the larger predators who occasioned down from the heights. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. They will usually disappear into the undergrowth at a hint of any danger, but will return once all is quiet, often to the same spot. Some have suggested Norway maples may also release chemicals to discourage undergrowth, although this is controversial. Show More Sentences The ard is not suited for clearing new land, so grass and undergrowth are usually removed with hoes or mattocks. The wet zone is a tropical evergreen forest with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers. Beyond was a tangle of undergrowth fringing a pocket of rainforest. It seemed a place where a dog could wuffle to his heart's content. It came after officers requested air support and a suspect was later located in undergrowth close to Milltown Cemetery in Belfast. Cameron would vote for bloodsports in a free vote but tells Tory MPs to stay in the undergrowth. The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells. Ballets were covered in decors while wading, often knee-deep, through a jungle undergrowth of theme and story. Three-eyed ancient reptiles called tuataras lurk in the undergrowth. Examples from Classical Literature They could hear faintly the voices of a few Englishmen who cursed as they wandered among the briary undergrowth. Then, like an ambient fungus, it slithered off into the jungle undergrowth. A thick growth of bushes lined the lake for aways, and then the footpath seemed to follow right through the undergrowth. When you have cut down both the forest and its undergrowth, then, bhikshus, you will be rid of the forest and free! The forest was open, and consisted of teak and cedar with but little undergrowth. About these scrubs the grass is very good and there is a luxuriant undergrowth of saltbush and salt herbs. Our path in the afternoon lay near the river over low ground, wooded with box, having an undergrowth of saltbush and polygonum. In all other directions are the pine-woods, with their undergrowth of saw palmetto. The undergrowth was of saw palmetto, growing in huge, impenetrable clumps, among which the muddy track wound in and out. Our roads diverged after a while, and my own soon ran into a wood with an undergrowth of saw palmetto. She collapsed, and crawled into the undergrowth, and lay shivering in a heap, like a sick puppy. So I used the helve of an entrenching-tool and the stalks of the willow undergrowth. In a moment they were crashing through the undergrowth, Jesse and Andy in the lead. In the rear a deep ravine, jungly with thick undergrowth, then the winding snag-strewn Patea River. The next day left the track and struck through the huge towering forest and jungly undergrowth by compass. They had struggled through a thick undergrowth of thorned bushes where the great arms of the firs shut out everything ahead. Then suddenly from the undergrowth rose a lank figure, and D'rona of the magic eye felt a bony hand at her throat. At this time it was covered by a fair, open walnut-wood, uncumbered with bush or undergrowth. It seemed to prefer secondary forest that had some undergrowth and was invariably flushed from the understory. Their route lay through an unprimed forest, abounding in thickets and undergrowth. Show More Sentences A scanty undergrowth of mountain maple and numerous sugar maple seedlings is present. The thicker the undergrowth of nettles and wild parsley, rushes and rough grasses, the more the whitethroat likes the spot. The Indian peafowl usually lay their large white eggs on the ground in long grass or thick undergrowth. The piculet was common in the secondary undergrowth near the Cocoa Research Station, and was taken once in the primary forest. The masts rose from that chaos like big trees above a matted undergrowth. He waited, perfectly still, and at last saw a gleam of white passing soundlessly through the undergrowth. The Mugger turned grunting into the undergrowth as Krishna rose. There was a tangle of undergrowth, and a heavy grove of palms. Great gaps were left through the undergrowth as the ray passed. It is simply a part of the undergrowth, a shrubby little tree. The roughness and unevenness of the ground suggested something of a great mass of debris hidden by the accumulation of centuries of undergrowth. But now the undergrowth all about them was alive with Drilgoes. The two Beast Men came running forward to cut me off from the undergrowth, inland. So quickly the virus worked that at the end of a dozen leaps the deer plunged headlong into the undergrowth, dead. It has just shot out from that great clump of 163 undergrowth. Nearer and nearer came bogle, noisily threshing the undergrowth. He held back the undergrowth again and peered into the depths. Without a word Paul vanished in the thick undergrowth beyond the brooklet. But the only reply was a furious crashing in the undergrowth. The stranger, whoever he was, had darted back in the undergrowth. Show More Sentences The kalmia and the alder gave undergrowth and brilliancy to the foliage. The beach was of dull-grey sand, and sloped steeply up to a ridge, perhaps sixty or seventy feet above the sea-level, and irregularly set with trees and undergrowth. It was just large enough to be the water-course for a small stream which vanished at intervals under green tunnels of undergrowth, as if in a dwarfish forest. About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth on a small bluff overlooking the meeting-place. Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him. He jumped from the cart, and having told the groom to take the mare home, made his way towards his guest through the withered bracken and rough undergrowth. Sparsit softly crushed her way through the thick undergrowth, so intent upon her object that she probably would have done no less, if the wood had been a wood of adders. Find more words! 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