How to Use banyan in a Sentence

banyan

noun
  • Scientists are not sure how resilient banyan trees are to fire.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Tròn sits at a concrete table out front, shaded by leafy banyans.
    — Gary Jones/ Suối Đá, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • At one point, traffic was stopped after a banyan tree branch fell on top of multiple cars and blocked the road.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • It’s housed in what was previously an open lot, with a massive banyan tree at the center.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Under the shade of a banyan tree, a group of worshipers recite Sanskrit mantras.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Bar-Ness knows more about the magnitude of giant banyans than just about anyone.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Bar-Ness knows more about the magnitude of giant banyans than just about anyone.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Its trees now include a hibiscus, a banyan, a ficus and a fig, Shabolin said.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Canham met her late husband a year later near the historic banyan tree that was nearly destroyed in the fire.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The grass is riddled with tiny purple flowers, and a grand banyan tree that neighborhood kids climb grows beside the canal.
    — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 25 May 2017
  • Maui's 150-year-old banyan tree is growing leaves after being charred by the wildfires.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Crews are on site at least weekly to maintain the landscape which consists largely of banyan, oak and palm trees as well as shrubbery.
    — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Tie the knot on one of two golden crescent beaches or in a verdant courtyard beneath a centuries-old banyan tree.
    — Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Once inside, they’re engulfed by ferns, fire-red Heliconia plants and lush banyan and banana trees.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • The 232 rooms are mostly in three-story tan buildings, set along gray cobblestone paths near palm and banyan trees.
    — Steve Knopper, New York Times, 5 May 2017
  • Lahaina was once the capital of Hawaii and is home to a number of historic buildings and an iconic banyan tree.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Now, Lahaina’s historic 150-year-old banyan tree has been charred by the wildfires and is dull in color – but still alive.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Roots drop from the upper branches like curtains and re-anchor in the soil, which is how banyans expand laterally over centuries.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The oldest banyan tree in Lahaina, planted a century and a half ago, beaten and blackened by fire, has sprouted green buds.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Start at the banyan and wander north on Front Street (there's a large public-parking lot at Front and Prison streets).
    — Brian J. Cantwell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • From her vantage point, Isabella could peek from beneath the towel and see Lahaina’s historic banyan tree on fire.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The banyan tree’s branches are strung with thousands of colorful lights, and crowds gather to stroll the park or just to stare (craft festivals take place beneath its canopy, too).
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In the middle of the open air market grows an Indian banyan tree that’s roughly 160 years old and the height of two telephone poles.
    — Melody Bentz, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
  • Foster took care to preserve a majestic 80-year-old, 65-foot-tall banyan tree outside the museum.
    — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 5 Feb. 2019
  • The recovery that arborists expected to see in three months happened in three weeks, a stark sign that the famous banyan tree would survive and thrive, Griffin said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The primates live inside Monkey Jungle, a 15-acre preserve covered with banyan and bamboo trees.
    — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The preservation of an old banyan tree on the park's edge is another nod to the past, while a large table in the center of the park serves as a focal point for the community to gather.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Against all odds, that banyan survived the ensuing 239 years and stands, in almost like-new condition, next to the painting in the Atheneum gallery.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 25 May 2017
  • In recent decades, the town became popular with tourists, who ate at its oceanfront restaurants and marveled at a majestic 150-year-old banyan tree.
    — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Lahaina had the oldest house in Maui, the Baldwin Home Museum, and a treasured banyan tree that has grown in a courtyard by the sea for 150 years.
    — Joshua Partlow, John Farrell, Brady Dennis, Brianna Sacks and Joanna Slater, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023

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