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 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
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Among the bold-faced names dangling in ornament form from our boughs are Anna Wintour, Frida Kahlo, Karl Lagerfeld and Snoop Dogg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Today the altar was lovely with banked scarlet poinsettias and fir boughs with the golden points of lighted slender white candles gleaming among the leaves.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
