How to Use hawthorn in a Sentence

hawthorn

noun
  • The hawthorn’s branches and red berries are part of the town’s seal.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 13 July 2018
  • What are the best hawthorn berry supplements to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The most common use of hawthorn berry is to treat high blood pressure.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Which hawthorn berry supplements are best?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Light Indian hawthorn thrives in full sun.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Below the front porch is a bed lined with Indian hawthorn.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • One in full bloom right now is the Indian hawthorn with white to pinkish blooms.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Grumpy shares tips on how to prune lavender and offers guidance on saving your hawthorn.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Growing hawthorns far away from apples and pears reduces blight issues.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The fruit of chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, sumac, and juniper are some of their favorites.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The lily of the valley and hawthorn also represent those born in May.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • According to Irish lore, the bush-like hawthorn trees on the park perimeter are where the fairies meet.
    — Amy Tara Koch, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2018
  • Wiregrass has grown up inside of my dwarf Indian hawthorn and come out of the top.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Woodcock can also be found mixed in with ruffed grouse in aspen stands and thickets of dogwood and hawthorn.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • What are the benefits of hawthorn berry supplements?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Washington hawthorn is also very tolerant of most soils, even clay.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
  • Washington hawthorn is also very tolerant of most soils, even clay.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • The restaurant is designed with lots of white and pops of juicy red, chosen to mimic the color of the berries on a hawthorn tree.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Indian hawthorn has leathery, dark green leaves that take on a pleasing purple hue in winter.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The antioxidants found in hawthorn berries fight the free radicals that lead to disease.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not take hawthorn berry supplements.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There are several varieties that feed on apple, pear, elm, alder, beech, hawthorn, and silver maple trees.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • There are several varieties that feed on apple, pear, elm, alder, beech, hawthorn, and silver maple trees.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Here, hawthorn takes over natural areas like prairies and savannas, shading out native plants.
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Our house perches on the edge of a bucolic valley, its pastures divided by ancient dry-stone walls and hawthorn hedges.
    — Plum Sykes, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • In this formula, mystery abounds — propelled by notes of crushed violet, fern, hawthorn essence, and ambrette.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The sourness of the hawthorn offsets the sweetness, and the crunchy outside belies a soft interior.
    — Steffi Cao, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands of cicadas gathered on one hawthorn tree, turning its trunk into a pointillist painting humming with life.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
  • Many aquatic plants, such as water hawthorn, are potted in submerged containers to prevent roots from spreading.
    — Karen Bruno, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
    — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019

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