He stood in the sparse brush and watched the wagon come up the hill.

The animal is somewhere below, in a mix of patchy pine forest and low, sparse brush scattered over a snow-covered swamp.

She pointed, and I saw a long-legged jack rabbit take off through the sparse brush.

The bench, little more than a wide ledge, was covered with thin soil; a few small trees and sparse brush grew on it.

Its lower slopes were naked rock or rock clad with the sparse, dryland brush of the middle desert.

Small rocks seemed to tower above the desert, and the sparse brush seemed to be trees.

The willows of a stream lined across the west, and to the northwest a fallow section was going back to sparse brush.

The hulking shape had crumpled and was crashing about in the sparse brush, twisting and straightening.

There was no water nearby, no grazing for horses within half a mile, except for the sparse brush.

At first there was much cedar alongside the road, but it thinned out and then disappeared, giving way to sparse brush and cactus.