Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: boughs
IPA transcription: [b'aʊz]
Usage examples
  • Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
  • Their boughs form an arch overhead."
  • The stars twinkled through the softly waving boughs.
  • If we pursued further, the boughs would break under the double burden.
  • And then he came into a fair meadow, and there was a fair lodge of boughs.
  • Our lights produced a thousand delightful effects while playing over these brightly colored boughs.
  • But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.
  • The tree has been cut down already again and again; and yet has always thrown out fresh shoots and dropped fresh poison from its boughs.
  • Such light as pierced the crowded boughs (Light scattered, scant and dim,) Passed through the fern that formed his couch And centred full on him.
  • The Story Girl leaned that brown head of hers against the fir trunk behind her, and looked up at the apple-green sky through the dark boughs above us.