How to Use mesquite in a Sentence

mesquite

noun
  • So where do the mill’s mesquite trees come from?
    — Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Streetlights stand where once there were oaks and mesquites.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The west end of the state prefers to use mesquite wood and direct heat.
    — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
  • Soon, the bark on his mesquite trees was gone and whole branches were dying.
    — Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The road near the Agua Caliente ghost town is lined with dead mesquite trees.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The meat is smoky and just slightly charred from the mesquite, and the chiles are spicy and just a bit chewy.
    — Javier Cabral, Bon Appétit, 21 July 2023
  • My dad took us to the ranch, 200 acres of dirt and cactus and mesquite.
    — Katie Gutierrez, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The kid whistles, summoning a horse from a copse of mesquite.
    — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • By day, the courtyard’s mesquite smoke and Champagne corks set the mood.
    — Chris Malloy, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2019
  • All that survived now were old mesquite and cottonwood trees on the edges of the land.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The myriad shades of green of the mesquites and oaks and a scores of shrubs and grasses.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The mesquite coals put a shiny glaze over the brisket fat, sealing in the juice underneath.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 13 July 2018
  • There are rolling hills, sandstone outcroppings and dense forests of oak, mesquite and elm trees.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • No famished migrants stumble from the clumps of mesquite trees lining the dirt road.
    — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
  • The plant is cooked in stone ovens using mesquite and volcanic rock and fermented in oak wood.
    — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Menu items will be prepared using live-fire techniques over mesquite and charcoal.
    — Sonia Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Thin, pork steaks coated in a scarlet red marinade are grilled over a sweet mesquite charcoal.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2024
  • Expect carne asada done the old way, grilled over mesquite charcoal until the smoke pierces the meat.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Expect carne asada done the old way, grilled over mesquite charcoal until the smoke pierces the meat.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The meat is either cooked on a flat-top griddle or charbroiled over mesquite (my favorite).
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • That is not the same as smoking the whiskey with mesquite, as other distilleries have done over the past few years.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Other bones were strewn down a rugged hillside covered in mesquite trees, wild grasses and jagged fist-sized rocks.
    — Rob O'Dell, azcentral, 5 July 2018
  • Six hulls of former 737 airliners are lined up on the grass near the mesquite trees.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The magnificence of mesquite is on full display.
    — Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Gawk at the showy red flowers of the ocotillo plant and the long, dangly pods of the honey mesquite tree.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In fact, my mail carrier was able to identify the scent as mesquite wood from the other side of the yard.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In the study, the mesquite flooring was reclaimed from a Mexican church.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The city was a hodgepodge of cement block apartments and tin shacks, the landscape dotted with mesquite.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2025
  • This includes even South Texas natives such as crepe myrtle, mesquite and huisache.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2021
  • The sweetness of caramel and vanilla remains present, while the oak and mesquite provide a steady backbone.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2026

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