How do you use Scrubby in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like wooded or scrawny, plus the exact meaning.
Scrubby in a sentence
Scrubby meaning
- Covered with or consisting of scrub.
- Inferior in size or quality.
Using Scrubby
- The main meaning on this page is: Covered with or consisting of scrub. | Inferior in size or quality.
- Useful related words include: scrabbly, wooded, scrawny, stunted.
- In the example corpus, scrubby often appears in combinations such as: scrubby neck.
Context around Scrubby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scrubby
- In this selection, "scrubby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, low, small, dense, neck, thing and mulberries stand out and add context to how "scrubby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a small scrubby bush and at both scrubby neck and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scrubby" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scrubby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I think a brush or a scrubby thing would have been amazing. (12 words)
One of her favorites was being a barn mother at both Scrubby Neck and Bittersweet farms. (16 words)
The site comprised established vines, elevated on the southern slopes of the valley and intersected by a scrubby gully. (19 words)
After a few years it got to be a bit too much of an insurance risk, and it was moved to Scrubby Neck, where a group tried to actually organize the event, but it never really caught on after that. (40 words)
She's set up her bird banding station in the most productive part of the forest, she said, by Station 16. There, the low, scrubby habitat, protected from the sun, turns up painted buntings and Cooper's hawks. (38 words)
Goeldi's marmosets prefer to forage in dense scrubby undergrowth; perhaps because of this, they are rare, with groups living in separate patches of suitable habitat, separated by miles of unsuitable flora. (32 words)
Example sentences (11)
I think a brush or a scrubby thing would have been amazing.
The only break came when the path crossed an old fenceline with its brief border of scrubby mulberries and Osage orange.
The site comprised established vines, elevated on the southern slopes of the valley and intersected by a scrubby gully.
She's set up her bird banding station in the most productive part of the forest, she said, by Station 16. There, the low, scrubby habitat, protected from the sun, turns up painted buntings and Cooper's hawks.
In these scrubby plains along the South Carolina border, dotted with swamps around the Lumber River, “the people of the dark water” were born – in a kind of backcountry melting pot.
Jumping from the SUV driven by his father, Ali, he races a few yards over the desert sands and follows them toward a small, scrubby bush.
After a few years it got to be a bit too much of an insurance risk, and it was moved to Scrubby Neck, where a group tried to actually organize the event, but it never really caught on after that.
My dad came home drunk and howled along to Chad Morgan’s classic 78 The Sheik from Scrubby Creek.
One of her favorites was being a barn mother at both Scrubby Neck and Bittersweet farms.
Goeldi's marmosets prefer to forage in dense scrubby undergrowth; perhaps because of this, they are rare, with groups living in separate patches of suitable habitat, separated by miles of unsuitable flora.
In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island.
Common combinations with scrubby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: