How to Use crab apple in a Sentence

crab apple

noun
  • Choose crab apple trees with care for stunning spring blooms.
    — Ariel Cheung, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • Dwarf crab apples can get 8-10 feet tall but can be kept pruned.
    — Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Soon after, his class planted a crab apple tree outside the school.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • Soon, the crab apple trees in my front and back yards will blossom into stunning pink clouds.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Come May, the park’s cherry and crab apple trees will put on their spring display.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This is the recipe Mathews followed for the crab apple jelly in her recipe.
    — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The kumquat is to the orange what the crab apple is to the apple – a small, tart version of the larger fruit.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Ruffed grouse are attracted by the fruit of a small, gnarled growth called the Oregon crab apple.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Fill the vase with beautiful crab apple branches full of ripe fruits and lush leaves, and place it on a small table near your front door.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • On the last day of the season, Ken Durbin and I flew eight grouse from a single crab apple tree.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Even with an attraction like the crab apple tree, west-slope grouse hunting is not like hunting the bottoms on the eastern side.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The team found evidence of fruit and nuts, including hazelnut, apple and crab apple.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This autumn, cardinals and blue jays will snatch orange crab apples from twisted branches.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
  • There is a deep sink in which to rinse and prepare vegetables from the garden and fruits from the orchard (pears, quince, crab apples and plums).
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • One thing that truly set people off, though, is the removal of Jackie Kennedy’s crab apple trees.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • And moose head into town too, avoiding deep snow in the mountains and finding crab apples that plunk down along Anchorage streets.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It’s decorated with real pinecones, faux crab apples, and holly berries, as well as a weather-resistant bow.
    — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Nearby was a test garden filled with crab apple trees and native plants like the Pulsatilla and the Baptisia.
    — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Desserts might include panna cotta with crab apple jelly, blackberry sorbet, and caramelized white chocolate.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Fruit Trees This category includes crab apples and mulberry trees as well as orchard trees.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 May 2025
  • For those looking to replace a tree, Renkert suggested an amur maple, a crab apple tree or an amur chokecherry (a type of chokecherry that hasn’t gone feral).
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Heartier dishes include the duck breast with pea tendrils and casa forcella crab apple mostarda; and the beef cheeks with avocado, green chile, crema, radish.
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Allan noted that his current project, the red flesh apple, contains a single gene taken from a crab apple which increases its antioxidants.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Flowering crab apples, for example, are useful small ornamental trees that offer lovely red, pink or white flowers in late spring and autumn fruits that feed wildlife.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • If any of your plants had a serious problem, such as apple scab on crab apple trees or viburnum leaf beetles on viburnum shrubs, do clean it up to reduce the risk that the problem will return next year.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The property was surrounded by thick brush and flowering Pacific crab apple and Klamath plum trees.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Visitors from the city are transported into another realm adorned with fresh lavender and crab apple trees, and Sardinian donkeys.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Traditional mezcal, rompope (or Mexican eggnog), and a punch made of tejocote (crab apple), cinnamon, pears, and sugar.
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Apple scab Usually known for picturesque, pink flowers, crab apple trees may already have been infected with apple scab, a fungal disease that infects the leaves.
    — Vikki Ortiz, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • In spring the central walkway becomes a riot of flowering crab apples and bare shoulders (I had been told), but now the kiosks were shuttered, the trees skeletal, the paths plowed but untrodden.
    — Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025

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