How to Use camphor in a Sentence

camphor

noun
  • Last year’s wet winter brought the camphor back to life after years of drought killed it.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Some people add camphor to the oil before applying it to the skin.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
  • This elegant novel leaves a haunting scent of camphor in the air.
    — Susan Wyndham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Some restaurants will use special types of wood, such as camphor wood or lychee wood, to give the bird a special smoky taste.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Russian sage contains camphor, an aromatic compound that gives the plant a strong scent deer don't like.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Finally, it's smoked in a gentle camphor wood fire, with a chef having to change the wood midway through the process.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 May 2021
  • Look for treatments that use ingredients such as camphor, zinc, and sulfur.
    — Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2019
  • The polish is made without harsh chemicals like formaldehyde, resin, and camphor.
    — Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The tongue-tingling peppercorns add warm touches of camphor and citrus.
    — Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 4 June 2018
  • After the evening meal, eat lettuce, drink wine, and rub an ointment made of the oil of violets or camphor on the temples. Dissolve a mixture of poppy seeds, lettuce seeds, balsam, saffron, and sugar and cook it in poppy juice.
    — Jessica Brown, CNN, 15 May 2017
  • The dominant note is filé, ground sassafras leaves, which lends a flavor somewhere between root beer and camphor.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Aged Puerh tea often comes with the smell of camphor mothballs and old newspaper, which some would say is normal.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Basil Basil leaves contain compounds such as camphor and thymol, which can relieve itching.
    — Debbie Wolfe, Popular Science, 27 May 2024
  • There’s just enough of its camphor undertone to bring dimension, without smacking of medicine.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Keep bugs at bay by planting the lavandin variety, which has a high concentration of camphor.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The branches are prized for their fresh, camphor-like aroma and their rounded, bluish-green leaves that look pretty in bundles, vases, and wreaths.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The crews were targeting about a dozen trees in the uplands, including towering camphors.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Surrounded by mountains that form the face of a tiger, the basin is lined by pathways, dense camphor trees and Taiwan acacia.
    — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • Weathers also collects and uses camphor glass in some of her jewelry designs.
    — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Burned black and split open, the camphor trees outside it initially were believed lost—but a few years after the blast, new growth began to appear.
    — Amy Briggs, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Kelpie finishes long with the aroma of molasses from the initial nosing returning, and with notes of deep-sea kelp, dank moss and camphor.
    — Jim Brucker, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • After, Adibi put camphor oil in a glass of water and rubbed the mixture on the corpse’s forehead, palms, knees, foot and fingertips.
    — Melissa Etehadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The vendor has other unique blends, like a candle that includes camphor (a type of evergreen), citrus and berry fragrances.
    — Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Eucalyptus cuttings will perfume your table with a unique, camphor-like aroma.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The food is prepared in a gleaming steel kitchen and served at a brightly illuminated camphor-wood counter with 16 seats.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • Volunteers in Santee planted live oaks, camphor and Arizona ash trees.
    — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • These products contain lidocaine, menthol, capsaicin, and camphor to cool, heat, or numb the affected back area.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Because of its resistance to insects, pleasing grain pattern and scent, camphor has long been used for furniture to store clothing.
    — Carolyn Patten | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • To test his hypothesis, the physician dosed a man with schizophrenia with a seizure-inducing chemical called camphor.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The handmade cube contains all-natural menthol, wintergreen, and camphor.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024

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