Word info

bunches

Speech parts

1. bunches - Noun

2. bunches - Verb

Meaning

bunches

plural of bunch
The vintner gathered bunches of grapes.

bunches pl (plural only)

Hair gathered together in two or more parts; pigtails.
She wore her hair in bunches.

bunches

third-person singular simple present indicative of bunch
My underwear bunches up when the weather is humid.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Eric Hoffer

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. Ambrose Bierce

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. Harper Lee

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. John McGraw

Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Camille Paglia

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. Francesca Lia Block

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