Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brambly
Adjective
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Most of the surface is made up of a fine dust with jagged edges because it hasn’t been weathered by wind or water.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Against all of this allegedly heady stuff, the score—by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—intentionally jars us from encroaching drowsiness with chortling woodwinds and shardlike piano chords that are the aural equivalent of jagged Plexiglass off-cuts.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The process to get a refund could be thorny for some.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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That’s a tall order with abysmal civic education and sharp partisan divisions over thorny issues.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Much of its body is covered in prickly sensory hair-like structures called setae, researchers said.—
Lauren Liebhaber
September 8,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Revenge wears a wry smile in this prickly comedy from Paul Weitz (the director of American Pie and About a Boy), as Fonda and Tomlin inhabit former best friends who reunite for a funeral.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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One of the most poignant choices is to intercut scratchy film of the train that in 1921 transported the Unknown Soldier to Rome in a coffin draped with patriotic banners and flowers, to be enshrined in the Altar of the Fatherland with an eternal flame at the Vittorio Emanuele II monument.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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Now, people who don’t have a technical understanding, there might be bootlegs, but that is scratchy stuff with not very good sound.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Brambly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brambly. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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