Example Sentences

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Soon, though, he lost the trail and began bushwhacking downhill along a stream bed.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

After about 3½ hours scrambling over boulders, trudging up slopes covered in loose gravel and bushwhacking through dense brush, they reached a flat spot at 8,400 feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Inaccessible by trails, Hyperion, a coast redwood, can be reached only by bushwhacking through heavy vegetation and crossing a river.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2022

By the end of an exhausting day that included bushwhacking through heavy brush, the fungi hunters had filled seven small plastic sacks with dirt from different locations.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 6, 2022

We traverse fields and forests, walk through barren lands where quails and woodcocks fly up at our feet, and, after twelve miles of bushwhacking, enter the Plattekill State Forest.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George