How to Use hornbeam in a Sentence

hornbeam

noun
  • This method isn’t limited to hornbeams.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Some species don a medley all at once, or are more potluck with their hues, like sweet gum and American hornbeam.
    — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Craddock is using branches of beech, birch and hornbeam to complete her wedding look.
    — Aj Willingham, Cnn design: Megan Pendergrass, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • But there was rapid, smooth healing in such trees as hornbeam and Southern magnolia.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Redbud and sweetgum, chokecherry and crabapple, hornbeam and plum.
    — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Notably, trees like oak, hornbeam, lime, and sweet chestnut are being chosen for their fast growth and hardiness.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • Groves fashions her lasts in beech, maple, or hornbeam, all of which are sourced from European timber merchants.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Alden Hopkins replaced boxwood in the Ellipse with the iconic hornbeam hedge.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Frank and other scientists had observed that truffles always grew around certain trees, such as beeches, hornbeams, oaks, and pines.
    — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Bleeders include beech, birch, elm, hornbeam, maple, walnut, willow, and yellowwood.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Craddock's team plans to use white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves, as well as branches of beech, birch and hornbeam for the chapel's floral displays.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Flowers and plants such as beech, birch and hornbeam, peonies, foxgloves and white garden roses are expected to be used in the arrangements.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Its yew trees, themselves a replacement for the original hornbeam, are threadbare in places where eager visitors have brushed up against them.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The wedding arrangements also included branches of beech, birch and hornbeam as well as foxgloves and peonies.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 20 May 2018
  • Willow is cut every year, beech and birch every three or four, hazel every six or seven, chestnut every fifteen to twenty, and oak and hornbeam every fifty.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Look for smaller trees like Eastern redbud or American hornbeam that don’t have destructive roots.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
  • There are other possibilities, like other maples, dogwood, hornbeam, etc.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Its short, hornbeam wood pins won’t trigger frizz or static (similar to metal options) and even help absorb excess sebum and natural oils from your strands.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 28 June 2025
  • Trees available during this week's event are flowering dogwood, sour gum, northern red oak, eastern redbud and American hornbeam.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • True to that mission, the project adds trails to the site from the museum’s north, home to Robert Irwin’s permanent installation of hornbeam trees.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
  • As for the new garden surrounding the little building, Ford has gathered a variety of bushy and stately plants, like the row of hornbeams that create a border between the new and old dwellings.
    — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Her team plans to use white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves, as well as branches of beech, birch and hornbeam for the floral displays, which will be distributed to local charities after the wedding.
    — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • American hornbeam and flowering dogwood Evolved to thrive in the dappled shade of the forest understory with a small footprint, the hornbeam handles city heat and compact soil.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • After monitoring the region for several years, the group noticed that oak and hornbeam trees started reappearing in greater numbers, as did some water-loving critters, like certain species of slugs and beetles.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Now there are stretches where the trees close in above you, such as the segment above Fremont Street where strawberry trees with their smooth orangey trunks reach over the walkway and meet the European hornbeam across the way.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The homeowner can get a rebate on a smaller tree that would provide an intermediate forest layer for wildlife and tolerate shade, such as an American hornbeam or a flowering dogwood.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Nuxe Men Nuxellence anti-aging fluid is all about recreating our youthful and energetic skin through the use of oak, hornbeam, passionflower and hyaluronic acid.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • The inventory also includes such underused but lovely native trees as the scarlet and overcup oaks, the Kentucky coffee tree and the American hornbeam and hophornbeam.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 20 Dec. 2017
  • As a result, the composition of the forest’s tree community shifted; flood-tolerating oak and hornbeam trees, once the dominant species, gave way to trees that fared better in drier conditions, like the sycamore and common ash.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Take the Hornbeam Trail, interspersed with the American hornbeam, a distinctive tree also called the musclewood — so named because the bark resembles rippling muscles.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022

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