bough
noun
a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
boughs
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pluralof bough.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Dozens of animals rely on them to survive, from ladder-backed woodpeckers who nest in their trunks to desert night lizards who sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Now, she’s past Leschi and then Seward Park, and it’s a little creepy out that way, with the lake a deep indigo and the big evergreens shaking their boughs overhead.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
