rosebush
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rosebush
Example Sentences
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Just like it was when we had to bury a corpse under a rosebush?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
“We never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger’s backyard, our mother’s rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
This winter, 20 years after my mother’s death, my sister and I scattered the tiniest amount of her ashes under the rosebush I planted precisely for this reason.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
The neighborhood where O’Rourke parked was a subdivision full of homes with xeriscaped desert yards: the occasional rosebush stood between creosote topiaries and gigantic cacti.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2018
They take them into that rosebush, and what happens to them I don’t know.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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