privets
- plural of privet.
Example Sentences
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Most people come to Bekonscot for containment and trimmed privets, for a place forever amber.
From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2018
The yard was so massed with tall privets that he couldn’t see much of the house.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Other plants that hold their leaves and are good for hedges are the common box and the privets.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy; White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
Off we went, dodging laurels and privets, and poured out on to the lawn, a disordered company.
From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax