shrubbery

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That's why they have half mile long driveways and tall shrubbery around their houses to keep prying eyes away.

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Shrubs collectively.

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noun

Shrubs collectively.

noun

A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shrubbery.

noun

Shrubs collectively.

noun

A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.

Example sentences

That's why they have half mile long driveways and tall shrubbery around their houses to keep prying eyes away.

It'd be great to have more shrubbery and trees up high, but at least they could do it realistically.

Crossings with shrubbery/objects that hides approaching pedestrians/cars/bikes and it is rare that there is anyone actually crossing.

Even when he ventures into something in FPS land, the most recent outing was Shrubbery Simulator.

In the meantime they keep the land stripped, with no trees or shrubbery, no native plants, and sometimes without even grass.

There is a building in Paris whose facade is a forrest of shrubbery.

Closing that space (whether by buildings, shrubbery, etc ) will slow the speed.

E.g., in my neighborhood the shrubbery around a house was too large.

Of course, again there is no shortage of shrubbery in suburban environments.

It's just hard to find in amongst all the parenthetical shrubbery.

They also suspected evey shrubbery to have a spy in them.

In these cases there's usually some other violation that is occurring, e.g., cars parked too close to the intersection, or shrubbery not properly cut back.

Quote examples

The reason "Bring me a shrubbery" is funny and why people endlessly quoted Holy Grail is because almost everyone in the US watched Monte python at one point or another.

At the risk of offending just about everyone, I would suggest that something like "Skibidi Toilet" is just this generation's badger-badger-mushroom, which in turn was that generations' "Bring me a shrubbery!".

I'm not too familiar with cases in the US but the "legit rape" in my country is more or less "the black man/immigrant that lurks in the shrubbery in a dark park".

The Scissorhands suburb was a classic "Levittown" suburb in non-classic colors: relatively small & inexpensive single-story homes that are virtually identical, each home has a lawn in the front and back but not a lot of space on the sides, not a lot of trees or even shrubbery because it's a development built in a relatively short period of time on what used to be farmland.