How to Use barberry in a Sentence

barberry

noun
  • Brand believes his sterile barberry will be the first one to make it to market.
    — Theresa Sullivan Barger, courant.com, 1 June 2017
  • Berberine is a chemical that’s found in plants and fruit, like barberries.
    — Ned Doyle, Robb Report, 19 July 2023
  • Lamb ribs are glazed in date and tamarind and finished with walnuts, barberries, and pickled hot chilies.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Remove barberry plants by digging, hand-pulling, or using a weed wrench.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Yucca, red barberry, prickly pear cactus, catclaw and gray thorn line the russet, rocky trail.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
  • Anything with thorns or a strong scent, like barberry or herbs, are usually unappealing.
    — Jennifer Heilman, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Chunks of meat, carrot matchsticks, barberries and plump chickpeas glisten amid the rice, and each bite is a hearty reminder of comfort at its finest.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That includes geranium, chrysanthemum, marigold, and salvia or shrubs such as barberry, juniper, spruce, and yew.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The five-course prix-fixe menu starts with kuku sabzi, a labor-intensive dish that involves a garden's worth of fresh herbs, eggs, walnuts and barberries.
    — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Cook barberries, stirring often, until plumped slightly and warmed through, about 2 minutes.
    — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Research has shown black-legged ticks, which transmit Lyme disease, increase in areas of dense barberry stands.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 16 May 2023
  • Black walnut, hawthorn or barberry make for a prickly, foreboding atmosphere.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Japanese barberry has long been used as an ornamental, bushy plant because its leaves transform from green to a purplish color in the fall.
    — Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Berberine Berberine is a natural compound found in plants like goldenseal and barberry.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Along the consistent but manageable climb to the falls, look for bluebells, wild strawberries and cute, yellow creeping barberry.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Berberine is a compound found in certain plants, such as barberry and the Chinese herb Coptis chinensis.
    — Novella Lui, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Users say berberine, which is found in a number of plants, including barberry plants, helps curb appetite and improve blood sugar levels, resulting in weight loss.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • At the Iranian Club, steam tables overflow with kebabs, rice with barberries and pistachios, bread and stew.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Examples are amur maple, burning bush, lily-of-the-valley, orange daylily, creeping bellflower and various barberry.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • Under them are a pencil cactus on a stand that turns an orange/red color; a red barberry; and a Weigela that has bright pink flowers, said Duckert.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • El Calafate gets its name from the calafate berry (barberry), and there is a local legend that says whoever eats a calafate berry will return to Patagonia.
    — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
  • The dishes found in their pages — from pozole and pupusas to bibimbap and barberry rice — confirm that diversity is indeed delicious.
    — Sarah Henry, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • Adding northern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla) to your landscape does not pose a threat like barberry and honeysuckle.
    — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • Rice is browned with meat — usually lamb or mutton — then stewed in a caldron called a kazan with onions, garlic and carrots, and spiced with cumin, coriander, barberries or raisins, marigold and pepper.
    — Charly Wilder, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Some small trials have shown that berberine, a yellow compound extracted from many shrubs including barberry -- from which comes its name -- can improve both cholesterol and blood sugar.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2021
  • This is bush honeysuckle, a foreign invasive shrub even more implicated in the spread of Lyme disease than barberry.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2018
  • The rule banned the ubiquitous Japanese barberry and and wintercreeper.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Egyptian lamb fattah and Persian chicken with barberry rice, according to The Telegraph.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Wheat rust needs barberry to survive, cedar-apple rust needs both juniper and an apple relative, and white pine blister rust needs a susceptible member of the currant family.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
  • For example, Japanese barberry can be dispersed rampantly, both by seeds and by wandering branches that anchor into the soil.
    — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023

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