How to Use mallow in a Sentence

mallow

noun
  • Rose mallow thrives in soil that is consistently moist but not wet.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2025
  • With mixer on high speed, beat cream with pinch salt until stiff peaks form; fold in marsh- mallow creme.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The voices are just a low hum, like the bees in false yucca or poppy mallow.
    — Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 13 Nov. 2025
  • It's made with hyaluronic acid, glycerin and mallow to hydrate and boost skin's glow.
    — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2022
  • There are blue sage and yarrow and mallow and tobacco and oregano and marjoram.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Hibiscus moscheutos Rose mallow is at home on the lakeshore and blooms all summer.
    — Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Today the marshmallow on your s’more contains no marsh mallow sap at all.
    — Jeffrey Miller, Smithsonian, 29 June 2018
  • Tree mallow, one of the few flowering shrubs, adds color and a layer of mystery.
    — Emily Young, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Like bush anemone, desert mallow grows best with limited watering.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024
  • Desert Mallow Brighten a hot, dry garden with easy-care desert mallow.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024
  • Rose mallow dies back to the ground in winter and is a perennial in Zones 4–9.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Six years later, the site seethes with life, barely visible trails cutting through rampant sedge and mallow, cow parsley and burdock.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • The baby plant at the base of your hollyhock could be either from seed, a baby hollyhock, a mallow or growth from the hollyhock root.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Through the ranch’s pole gates is a wide meadow of grasses and scarlet globe-mallow flowers, grazing goats, colorful cliffs and sandstone spires.
    — Alexandra Marvar, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Prune Rose Mallow in Spring Rose mallow is an ultra-easy-care hibiscus.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Khobeizah, or common mallow, and loof, a flowering perennial plant with bright green leaves, were some of the edible plants found growing wild that her mother cooked.
    — Aina J. Khan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The mallow survives in otherwise inhospitable soils, found often on gypsum outcrops.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
  • My favorite is ‘Louis Hamilton’ desert mallow, whose flowers are the color of ripe watermelons.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Perhaps Althaea officinalis, the common marsh-mallow plant that thrives on the sunny banks of waterways?
    — Garrett Munce, GQ, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Flowering sea kale and poppy mallow were planted in the Moon Garden because these and other blossoms bear light or white petals that seem to glow in the dark.
    — Jeanine Barone, The Know, 23 Feb. 2020
  • On the jar, the ingredient list reads honey roasted peanut butter spread, vanilla creme, honey glaze, cinnamon brown sugar, and mallow creme.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The molokhia leaves are also known as jute or Jew’s mallow (a bitter green somewhere between spinach and sorrel that can get viscous, similarly to okra, when cooked).
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 21 May 2018
  • This mist is boosted by waterlily extract to lift at the roots and white mallow extract, which not only amps up shine but also smooths the hair cuticle for a silky, light-reflective finish.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 18 May 2025
  • There are affordable rentals, family-friendly fire pits for drinking hot cocoa and roasting ‘mallows, and the rink is open until 9pm for maximum time on the ice.
    — Kate Wertheimer, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Hibiscus sawflies feed on members of the mallow family with the most common one in this area being the large-flowering perennial hibiscus.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
  • Now, this green, a variety of mallow, is making up an outsize portion of many Gazans’ diets by providing an inexpensive way to blunt hunger.
    — Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The oldest ingredient in the s’more’s holy trinity is the marshmallow, a sweet that gets its name from a plant called, appropriately enough, the marsh mallow.
    — Jeffrey Miller, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Also made with moisturizing glycerin and soothing mallow extract, the French salve removes makeup while giving the skin a garden-fresh glow.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 2 June 2025
  • Two species of hibiscus, common rose mallow and swamp rose mallow, are both native to wetlands and moist areas of eastern North America.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • While marsh mallow needs a moist environment to thrive, such as at the edge of a water pond or anywhere in the garden that stays moist, planting it in a permanently wet bog or swamp is not to its liking.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 10 Aug. 2024

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