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- noun Plural form of
privet .
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Examples
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The spacious gardens were separated by tall privets and, in some cases, fir trees.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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He wielded the pruning shears with stubby fingers, snip-snip-snip, in the branches of boxwoods and privets that he sculpted into animals.
Green Animals Sandra Rouse 2009
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He wielded the pruning shears with stubby fingers, snip-snip-snip, in the branches of boxwoods and privets that he sculpted into animals.
Green Animals 2009
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Bassett also advises against planting the following high-allergen species: amaranth, crocuses, elderberries, junipers, peonies, poppies and privets.
Allergy Overload E.J. Mundell for HealthDay News 2006
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The spacious gardens were separated by tall privets and, in some cases, fir trees.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005
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The almond trees and privets were tipped with green.
The Years 2004
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Th e spacious gardens were separated by tall privets and, in some cases, fir trees.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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The spacious gardens were separated by tall privets and, in some cases, fir trees.
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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He had never previously noticed how unpleasant ordinary privets and cypresses can look in deep twilight when they are not clustered together in a shrubbery or copse; when they stand individually on an otherwise open space, strange shapes, tall and slender or round and squat, or with a branch here and there protruding like a limb, and casting elongated shadows.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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Other plants that hold their leaves and are good for hedges are the common box and the privets.
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