How to Use poplar in a Sentence

poplar

noun
  • Its golf course is one of the most poplar in the area and includes a practice range and green.
    — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This fungal disease attacks poplars, spruces, and stone fruits.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
  • For a while, Tabet had lived on the west side of the city, which was filled with tall sycamores, poplars and maples.
    — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The redwood trees, which unlike the poplars don’t lose their needles in the fall, may be safer.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Take walks along country roads lined with color-popping poplar, willow and oak trees.
    — Sharon Boorstin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The desk and bed, which are built-in, are made out of poplar with reclaimed redwood for the fronts and drawers.
    — Sally Kuchar, Sunset Magazine, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Available in four sizes, two depths, and different colors, these are made of poplar topped with stain.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Small balls of gray catkin fluff blew on the wind, seedpods from poplars, which bloom all over Warsaw in the spring.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
  • My day of magic arrived on a bright autumn morning, when the poplar trees swayed against a golden city.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 28 June 2019
  • Praise the infinite, nameless tellers of tales swaying from the poplar’s limbs.
    — Michael Palmer, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Praise the infinite, nameless tellers of tales swaying from the poplar’s limbs.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Allergenic trees include alder, birch, cedar, horse chestnut, oak poplar and willow.
    — Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The breakfast is cooked on a broad Queen Atlantic cookstove fueled by oak and poplar.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Living Carbon’s poplars start their lives in a lab in Hayward, Calif.
    — Gabriel Popkin Audra Melton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Tulip poplar is one of the largest and most valuable hardwood trees in the United States.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
  • For a light wood option, substitute birch plywood and edge tape for all of the plywood parts, and replace oak with maple or poplar.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The oyster and chestnuts mushrooms can be grown on soft hardwood like aspen, poplar or cottonwood.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Expect to see a lot of pine, oak, mahogany, walnut, and poplar crafted in his patchwork-style furniture.
    — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 6 Mar. 2017
  • They're typically comprised of coniferous tree species such as pine, spruce and fir, as well as some broadleaf species, such as poplar and birch.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There’s an 88-foot-long beam of uncut American poplar that also tells a story.
    — Jennifer Lindahl, The Tennessean, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The venue is encircled by a towering curtain of oaks, poplars, and pines, and each note seemed to hang in the air for the rapt audience.
    — Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • Lombardy poplars, in particular, can grow 6 feet high per year and as high as 50 to 60 feet.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 16 Jan. 2026
  • After a few more minutes of walking through the oaks and tulip poplars, the conservationists ran across one such defunct trail.
    — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • The scene resembled a parade route with people facing outward, at the thicket of tulip poplars, hemlocks, red oaks and maple trees.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Red and sugar maples, along with American beech, pines, oaks, poplars, and elms, are most likely to develop tree girdling due to roots.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2024
  • Thanks to a poplar, paulownia, and bamboo backbone and triax and carbon glass job, the Greats is on the stiff side of the freestyle spectrum.
    — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.
    — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Suddenly Nero started barking frantically by the roots of a poplar.
    — Joji Sakurai, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2016

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