Example Sentences

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She nods in the direction of the hot seller, a sprawling bushlike number laden with floaty, almost translucent waxy-green leaves roughly the size of dinner plates.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2017

He wore a bushlike black beard and shoulder-length hair, which he kept out of his face with a headband made from a filthy nylon strap.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Through the curly mesquite he crawled, hiding behind the short bushlike clumps until he had chosen the next line of advance.

From Oh, You Tex! by Raine, William MacLeod