How to Use sassafras in a Sentence

sassafras

noun
  • Bay leaf and sassafras trees and plants are also on the bug’s nesting list.
    — Willie James Inman, Fox News, 13 July 2017
  • The sassafras adds a grassy, slightly sour note, and the berries bring more color and tang.
    — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Cow parsley was also called is crow’s foot, and sassafras is the tea that was said to thin blood.
    — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Made with sassafras, vanilla and cinnamon sticks, this creamy, lively soft drink comes with one free refill, for $4.
    — Carla Meyer, sacbee.com, 1 June 2017
  • Once inside the park, the tulip poplars, dogwoods, black cherry, sassafras and pawpaw trees are breathtaking.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The history of sassafras speaks to the complex movement of knowledge across cultures and systems.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Black cherry, thyme and a hint of sassafras — simple, straightforward and delicious.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
  • My Grandmama talked about living off of livers and gizzards and poke salad, sassafras tea and chicory root.
    — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2021
  • This savory blend of sangiovese, merlot and sagrantino is deep and sophisticated, with notes of dark plums, cherries, cloves and sassafras.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • Elsewhere, maidenhair, blue cohosh and sassafras abound, auguries of a nutrient-heavy, fertile forest floor.
    — Jonny Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The woodlands contain many tree species, including shag bark hickory, sassafras and flowering dogwoods.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Indigenous communities had long used sassafras tea to treat fevers, digestive issues, and a wide range of other conditions.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As the story goes, Christopher Columbus was first drawn to the continent’s shores by the strong, cinnamon-like aroma of the sassafras tree.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The drink contains notes of sassafras, wintergreen and licorice, with special ingredients of molasses, honey, and vanilla.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • The tale is likely false, as undisturbed sassafras trees release little fragrance, and Columbus arrived outside of the plant’s most aromatic season of spring.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Three-fifths of the surrounding county was state or federal forest, thick with mountain laurel and, in warmer months, teeming with mushrooms, ramps, ginseng, goldenseal, and sassafras.
    — Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
  • State Forester David Arnold says in a news release that sassafras and spicebush are important ecological species in Tennessee.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2019
  • More to Explore In the twentieth century, sassafras underwent a more dramatic reevaluation.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Through direct and indirect exchanges with these communities, early settlers learned of Indigenous applications of sassafras and adopted them in their own preparations of medicinal teas and tonics from the root bark.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In contrast, institutionalized Western medicine redefined sassafras through laboratory experimentation, largely detached from these contexts of use.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
    — Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
  • Contemporary research complicates these findings, necessarily accounting for differences in dosage, metabolism, and preparation, and unsettling scientific conclusions divorced from how sassafras was utilized in real, traditional contexts.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Following these findings, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of sassafras oil and safrole as food additives in 1960 and later prohibited the interstate shipment of sassafras bark for tea, effectively removing the plant from commercial products.
    — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026

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