briers

[US]/'braiə/
[UK]/ˈbraɪɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. thorny shrub; wild rose; Eupatorium

Phrases & Collocations

prickly brier

thorny brier

wild brier

Example Sentences

He picked his way carefully through the brier patch.

The hiker got scratched by the brier bushes.

She wore thick gloves to protect her hands from the brier thorns.

The brier tangled in her hair as she walked through the overgrown path.

The rose bush was covered in briers, making it difficult to prune.

The cat got stuck in the brier patch and needed help to get free.

The brier snagged on his coat as he walked by.

She carefully removed the brier from her shoe before continuing to walk.

The brier bushes provided a natural barrier along the edge of the property.

The farmer cleared the field of briers to make space for planting crops.

Real-world Examples

44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

Source: Bible (original version)

Wherever they went among the scratchy briers, mosquitoes rose up in buzzing swarms.

Source: The little cabin on the grassland.

People gave him some brocade and brier as his prize.

Source: Pan Pan

Her face and her hands and her bare feet were covered with brier scratches and mosquito bites.

Source: The little cabin on the grassland.

Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

Source: 23 Isaiah Musical Bible Theater Edition - NIV

The principal shrubs are manzanita and ceanothus, several species of each, azalea, Rubus nutkanus, brier rose, choke-cherry philadelphus, calycanthus, garrya, rhamnus, etc.

Source: Yosemite

All day I had fought my way behind Uncle Barney through swamp and hammock, bay-heads and oak thickets, through horse briers and bull briers.

Source: Cross Creek (Part 2)

He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.

Source: 07 Judges Soundtrack Bible Theater Edition - NIV

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

Source: 23 Isaiah Musical Bible Theater Edition - NIV

She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be.

Source: Difficult Times (Part 2)

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