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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At Cold Comfort Farm “dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
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
Desert night lizards sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
