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Meanings of chaparral in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bush"
Examples for "bush"
1
Request ambulance aircraft at Willstown soon as possible prepared for bush landing.
2
One learns the charm of the lone trail in the Canadian bush.
3
We would see the fire-flies winking in the bush above the beaches
4
Most of the victims perish far from sight, deep in the bush.
5
From the screen of the bush I watched her with natural interest.
1
Yet the deathly stillness in the scrub oaks around the house continued.
2
The composition of the scrub depended on the nature of the soil.
3
After the first mile the scrub became much thinner; ground slightly undulating.
4
Background: Before 1986, scrub typhus was only found endemic in southern China.
5
For seven miles the scrub is open, and the land beautifully grassed.
Usage of chaparral in English
1
When day broke they were well inland and secure in the chaparral.
2
He looked at the chaparral banker through his double-magnifying glasses in amazement.
3
The roan plunged through the chaparral and soon was out of sight.
4
Then I happened to see the little field-piece stranded among the chaparral.
5
A few kids walked the top of it, nibbling the chaparral leaves.
6
All they could see was that somebody was riding through the chaparral.
7
Then he crossed a brook and was among chaparral and manzanita bushes.
8
Dashing off, he spurred his horse at full speed into the chaparral.
9
Somebody must have been lyin' there in the chaparral waitin' for him.
10
No chance shot from the chaparral was to cut down Dingwell's partner.
11
Alvarita, still seated within her vine, leaned forward above the breast-high chaparral.
12
I reckon you don't know that he fired the chaparral on purpose.
13
And you said people thought the bandits had a cache in the chaparral.
14
The commotion in the chaparral stopped, and from it rose a wild figure.
15
Rosa and I never spent a night together in the chaparral-
16
The two lying in the chaparral rose to their knees, bending anxiously forward.
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Chaparral through the time
Chaparral across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common