privet• It had a newly thatchedroof and was enclosedinside a privet hedge.• It tasted like a privet hedge.• At Green Animals, severecold has been known to make a privetnosewither.• Boxwood grows slowly, but fast-growing privet can turn shaggy in a week.• For weeks they talked of nothing but Polly and her privetbird.• One morning Polly looked at her privet bush and sighed.• He was having a go at the privethen.• Polly parked the privet bird and began to shop.