How to Use ironwood in a Sentence

ironwood

noun
  • That’s irony, which is like ironwood but easier for an axe to go through.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • Shitakes need to be grown on a hardwood like oak, ironwood or sugar maple.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Keeping company with the ironwood trees are mesquite, paloverde, creosote and saguaro.
    — latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Mesquite, paloverde and ironwood trees huddle at its base while raptors and vultures roost in its many nooks and shallow caves.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Sathyamurthy offers a quick prayer at the temple, then leads me into a dense thicket of ironwood, ebony, and axlewood.
    — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • By May, watch prickly pears sprout on the cacti and desert ironwood trees grow soft coatings of lavender flowers.
    — Alex Schechter, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Persian ironwood and paperbark maple are two sleepers that are hard to find in the garden centers but worth the effort.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The island’s ancient ironwood trees, of which there are only about 120 left, are also under threat.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Thirty-four leafless evergreens surround much of the tennis courts, although there is an ironwood that does have leave at one corner.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Sprinkled with Saguaros, mesquites and ironwood trees, the course offers great rates year-round with plenty of natural desert beauty.
    — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 31 May 2018
  • Catalina ironwood trees surround the firepit, along with native ferns and edibles like native strawberry and mint.
    — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 6 May 2022
  • An ironwood tree, called kaasan in Tamil, is of particular medicinal value.
    — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The ropes under my hands, touched lightly, lightly, felt somewhat frayed and old, and the ironwood slats under my feet seemed occasional.
    — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Indonesian teak is used for Vela’s decking, ironwood for the hull, while the traditional twin masts are made from carbon.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
  • Among these trees are century-old Japanese maples, ironwood trees, and horse chestnuts that would have otherwise been cut down.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Between them were splinters of ironwood, a material used by the site’s inhabitants to pry abalone from slick rock outcrops.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Head south and follow the dirt single track that traces the park’s southeast boundary through rumpled washes and lush stands of ironwoods and paloverde trees that clutter moist drainages.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • That ironwood tree shading the cabin earned notoriety as the Hanging Tree.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Their teeth are also capable of stripping bark off of trees, making ironwoods and palo verdes even more vulnerable to hungry herds.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To get the different colors in this five-chopsticks set, each one is made from a different wood, including beechwood, rosewood and ironwood.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Palo verde and ironwood trees are common in the Sonoran Desert, capable of living for over 100 years.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Where aspens are scarce or absent, important winter foods include the buds and catkins of apple, alder, birch, black cottonwood, cherry, ironwood, willow, and cedar.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Borneo ironwood and other tropical hardwood trees have long blanketed this rugged island in Indonesia.
    — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Two unique trees that grow a little larger and like more sunlight include Canadian red chokecherry, Persian ironwood and paperbark maple.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
  • Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
  • They're modeled after traditional Balinese balé pavilions, with breezy living spaces and decks from reclaimed ironwood.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 21 June 2022
  • During the construction phase, the group avoided the use of heavy machinery to keep most of the jungle intact and used ironwood reclaimed from boat piers and fishing boat decks as the main construction material.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • These include more than 250 varieties of species such as cedar of Lebanon (part of the park’s extensive cedar collection), Persian ironwood, and Oriental sweet gum.
    — Alyssa Giacobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • What’s more, a combination of dry conditions, deer predation and pollination problems is threatening the island’s ancient ironwood trees, of which there are only about 120 left.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Mexican sycamore, Texas ash, Persian ironwood, loquat leaf oak, desert willow, ginkgo, trident maple, Mexican plum and Walter’s viburnum.
    — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020

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