How to Use bushy in a Sentence

bushy

adjective
Definition of bushynext
  • Snip off the main branch above the leaf stock to stimulate bushy versus stringy growth.
    — Gabriella Verdugo, Marie Claire, 18 May 2017
  • Two bushy brows hood his eyes, lending him an eccentric air that doesn’t quite suit him.
    — Michael Callahan, Vanities, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Glasses, a beard bordering on bushy and long, flowing hair that waves in his windup.
    — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • Ugly, leggy stems can be pruned to the ground, which will encourage a new flush of bushy growth.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Using their dexterous trunks, the adults were munching on the bushy ends of branches like broccoli.
    — Brent Stirton, National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2017
  • Every now and then, a breeze swept along the banks, rustling through the green-gold marsh reeds and the tall, bushy trees laden with Spanish moss.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2017
  • If your mums are super bushy, follow the stem down and cut it below the plant’s current foliage outline or bloom height.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Be it his stoned, ice grill piercing through the lens or the way his bushy and thick eyebrows said everything his huge pupils tried to conceal.
    — Datwon Thomas, Billboard, 9 June 2017
  • Say goodbye to frowny faces, bushy mustaches and negativity of any kind.
    — Tracy Brown, latimes.com, 10 May 2017
  • Lightly trimming back a plant, such as a coleus, hibiscus or impatiens, every now and then will keep it more compact and bushy.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 12 June 2017
  • But canopy-walk attractions give those of us without the benefit of feathers, a loincloth or a bushy tail an opportunity to experience and learn about life at the top.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2017
  • The door opens to a lean man with spectacles, Teva sandals, blue jeans, a Laguna Coast T-shirt, a bushy gray beard and a long dark ponytail.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The plant is very bushy and grows to a height of 18 inches.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Princess the cat’s tail was bushy with fright, and Fluffy the dog was barking.
    — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
  • The squirrel’s is big and bushy, the rat’s is naked, scaly, and wormlike.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 8 July 2022
  • Eyebrow trends have ranged from thin and long to thick and bushy.
    — Julia Naftulin, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The name comes from Love’s reddish-blonde hair and Brown’s bushy beard.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • There was a young man who wore a turban and a soft bushy beard.
    — Celeste Ng, Bon Appétit, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Some trimmed their bushy beards and changed their clothes in efforts to blend in.
    — Andrew Katz, TIME.com, 17 July 2017
  • Since then, the trees have bounced back, their tops bushy green, though their trunks are still charred.
    — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • So if Austin has bushy ‘60s hair then maybe Dr. Evil should have no hair.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 11 June 2019
  • Commuters will notice the bushy 15-foot-tall plants in fields around the metro area.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • Dads with bushy beards and in Red Wing boots push $1,400 Bugaboo strollers.
    — Lysandra Ohrstrom, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2021
  • But maybe that’s where the bushy sideburns came in useful.
    — Lawrence Weschler, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The stems are medium-short, and the bush is medium-small, rounded and bushy.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • To keep the plants more bushy than lanky, pinch them back in spring and early summer.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • That could put the swarms in India’s bushy center very soon.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2020
  • Rows of big and bushy plants, their long limbs heavy with flowers, dot the landscape.
    — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
  • When my boy is old enough to chase bushy tails with me, this will be his rifle.
    — Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The plant forms bushy, upright clumps about 18 inches tall and wide.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 June 2021

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