noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bush
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It galloped towards the boy in silence, swinging a thorn bush from its arm.
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He ended up in a thorn bush where he finally managed to break free from his billowing parachute.
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A democratic committee of journalists? - a thorn bush for the editor to hide in.
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Almost as bad as the thorn bush , Lollo said.
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Together they made their way to the patch of thorn bushes which was Sabina's preferred place for drying.
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Down below, fires are being lit and the cattle are being driven gently into the enclosures of thorn bushes .
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Because if there's a thorn bush around, the ball will land in it.
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There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands.
tree
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The thorn trees crowned the edge of a little valley where ran a track as old as the land itself.
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When the sun sets, its inhabitants bow down in unison amid their baobab and thorn trees toward Mecca to pray.
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The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.
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At the first steep slope of Great Ararat they tethered their horses to a thorn tree and hobbled them.
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Above them, tied to a thorn tree , faded red and white streamers dangle like the tattered carcasses of scrawny birds.
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Then there was just a bank where rabbits obviously lived, topped with thorn trees .
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Certainly thorn trees occur along leys, and planting is a way of establishing a mark with relatively little effort.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Half a dozen thorns and two or three elders grew together above and below a bank.
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He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers.
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I called across a tall thorn fence towards the shelter.
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Others carried head-bundles of leaves and grass for the sheep and goats now penned behind thorn fences beside the houses.
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The thorn trees crowned the edge of a little valley where ran a track as old as the land itself.
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Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.