canebrake
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of canebrake
Example Sentences
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Raines vividly conjures the watery landscape into which the Africans stepped, an alligator-filled swamp once thick with canebrake, now transformed by hydroelectric dams.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
“The Accidental City” by Lawrence N. Powell, a Tulane historian, is about the city’s first 100 years or so, from its founding in the canebrake along the Mississippi River to its gradual takeover by Anglo-Americans.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2016
For an artist of Faulkner's high purpose, the canebrake confusion of manner can only be deliberate�an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are many such echoes, because the Civil War was a destiny-sized war�2,300,000 Union men v. about 1,000,000 Confederates�crackling like a flaming canebrake from New Mexico to Chesapeake Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
He cut out from the bottoms, walked a rail fence, and jumped from it into a thick canebrake.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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