1. Scrubby bushes festooned with ice crystals which gleamed.

2. A tiny yard full of scrubby tufts of grass trying to look green, and some one's garage wall at the end.

3. The valley was scrubby here: elephant grass, occasional tall trees, and dry rice paddies.

4. The only vegetation was scrubby trees and patches of coarse grass.

5. Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.

6. From over scrubby cheekbones eyes looked into Winston's, sometimes with strange intensity, and flashed away again.

7. On a cutover California hillside thick with scrubby redwoods, Scotch broom, and poison oak, Mike Fay missed a step, started to slide, and felt a stiletto jab the top of his left foot.

8. A few scrubby trees, like red alder, have re-established themselves, and ants, frogs, meadowlarks, beavers and other species have moved in.

9. A tract of unproductive land, often a scrubby growth of trees. Often used in the plural.

10. It was comic that a scrubby little Welsh member should look at me like that.

11. The Marais Communal of Curzon lies in the lap of low scrubby hills, like a green sea of stillness.

12. The wide belt of dune-land with its hummocks and scrubby grass growing out of the sand was deserted at that hour.

13. Diving into woods with old limestone spoil heaps and scrubby clearings is like discovering a stash of lost gems.

14. On top of the bilberries lay a few rather scrubby chanterelles, slightly battered.

15. One - storey houses erected in the late 1940 s and early 1950 s sit behind scrubby gardens.