How to Use red maple in a Sentence

red maple

noun
  • My red maple tree is opening its buds and starting growth.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The valley forest has a plethora of red maple trees aflame with color in the fall.
    — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This Ghost of Yōtei haunts the red maple forests and stalks the snowy tundra in search of those whose names are written on the sash wrapped around her waist.
    — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Clients also tend to want giant river birches, red maples, elms, and Japanese zelkovas.
    — Ben Kesslen, Curbed, 29 June 2026
  • There’s no guarantee, but some plants are less likely to be damaged by Japanese beetles, such as red maple, boxwood, flowering dogwood, holly, magnolia, some types of oaks and most evergreens.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no guarantee, but some plants are less likely to be damaged by Japanese beetles, such as red maple, boxwood, flowering dogwood, holly, magnolia, some types of oaks and most evergreens.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Atsu and her horse galloping across a frozen lake that looks like blue lace agate; Atsu making camp under the green streaks of the aurora borealis; red maple leaves careening and pinwheeling in the wind in Atsu’s wake.
    — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Take the Turkey Trail Path one mile to the bottom of Pine Creek Gorge, which is especially scenic in fall when red maples, hickories, and white oaks are awash with warm colors.
    — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The garden now also features more than 120 Japanese cherry blossoms, a Japanese-style gate and tea house, a moon bridge, lanterns, and several Japanese red maple trees.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The best of it is visible on a sedate train ride on the open-air Kurobe Gorge Railway, which traces the emerald Kurobe River between the rural hot-spring towns of Unazuki and Nekomata on a route engulfed by deep red maples.
    — Rob Goss, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025

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