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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Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
They’d piled a mat of dead hemlock boughs over the snow and they sat wrapped in their blankets watching the fire and drinking the last of the cocoa scavenged weeks before.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
