Example Sentences

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By the time I was bushwhacking down the mountain below the tree line, my phone died.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 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

I’ve been playing the what-would-you-do-for-a-Lyme-vax game more frequently this year, as my friends and I have spent most of our social time bushwhacking along the sides of overgrown creeks while our kids run wild.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2021

We jogged across I-Drive and then started bushwhacking through a thicket of tall shrubs and oak trees.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green