How to Use box elder in a Sentence

box elder

noun
  • Coming in next is the box elder, which makes up only 4% of trees.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Sugar and black maples are best, but red maples, silver maples and box elder trees will work, too.
    — Susan Dietrich Hassler, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The canyon is filled with box elders that had not yet leafed out, and above us sandstone cliffs soared like skyscrapers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The sapling on the left is a young box elder tree, which has leaf stems directly across from each other on the branch.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The trees also have a pest, resembling box elder bugs of the north, called golden-rain tree bugs that feed on the seeds and may prevent some from sprouting.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Tree plantings included silver maple, box elder, swamp and black oak, and varieties of birch, cedar, and willow trees.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
  • The park is populated by tulip poplars, American beech, oaks, white pine, sycamores, box elders, and red maples, among other species.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Five types that come up commonly in the beds at our house are cottonwoods, willows, hackberries, mulberries and box elders.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
  • The mother trees are somewhere else, and the seeds have been brought in by birds (mulberries, hackberries) or the wind (cottonwoods, willows and box elders).
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
  • The water runs fast, flashing between banks of oak and willow, cottonwood and box elder and hackberry, and intricate wild-haired tapestries of fern.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • During the winter untold millions of animals — toads, frogs, salamanders, snapping turtles, garter snakes, bats, wood ticks, mosquito larvae and box elder bugs — are hibernating across Minnesota.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Interestingly, silver maple and box elder, also a member of the maple family, along with Eastern cottonwood, are also keystone plants, according to the NWF.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022

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