Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Yesterday at noon we passed close to Beauchene Island, a dreary, bushless place, half covered with snow.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

The Downs are not the best subjects in the world for verse; but they will be remembered with and by his descriptive line in the "Idylls"— Far o'er the long backs of the bushless downs.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

After leaving Kooltapa, treeless country becomes bushless, and nothing combustible is to be got but animal fuel.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)