How to Use silver maple in a Sentence

silver maple

noun
  • One such tree is the silver maple.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Norway maples and silver maples are some of the worst offenders.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Among the redbuds and silver maples that fringed the hillsides, the light turned the color of ash.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The swamp forest in this area includes tamarack, silver maple, red maple, and green ash.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Thick forests of sugar, red, and silver maples shift to shades of yellow, red, and orange.
    — Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
  • When summer rolls around, the full view of the townhouse will be eclipsed by the foliage of the silver maples.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The family was deciding what to do with the silver maple tree.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
  • One species, the silver maple, is among the most overplanted in Maryland.
    — Sharon Boies, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2021
  • If planted near a driveway, a silver maple’s roots will push up against pavement, causing cracks and bumps.
    — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For example, a silver maple sheds seeds in late spring, while white oaks drop acorns in late summer or early fall.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But that pounding the house took finally brought me around, and now the silver maple is coming down, piece by piece.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • Black, red, and silver maples can be tapped for syrup, but sugar maples are prized for their production of the sweetest sap.
    — Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Each spring, thousands of samaras from our silver maple tree fall upon the landscape when the wind starts gusting.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • On the other hand, fast-growing trees, such as silver maples, often have weak wood that easily breaks in storms.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Tewes said silver maple, tatarian maple and some oaks can’t draw nutrients out of Utah’s acidic soil.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • There are several varieties that feed on apple, pear, elm, alder, beech, hawthorn, and silver maple trees.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There are several varieties that feed on apple, pear, elm, alder, beech, hawthorn, and silver maple trees.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Some trees, like silver maples, are known for aggressive roots that can damage driveways and foundations.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • The recesses left by the melting ice, called kettles, are home to rare wetland plants and more trees — elm, ash, silver maple, white oak.
    — Kristan Schiller, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The silver maple far outnumbers other types of trees, which the plan says could be a liability.
    — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Phillips says the temperature change may benefit some animal and plant species, such as the silver maple and sycamore.
    — Post-Tribune, 16 May 2018
  • Grown in a location with ample space, away from structures and driveways, silver maples can be beautiful.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Tree plantings included silver maple, box elder, swamp and black oak, and varieties of birch, cedar, and willow trees.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
  • The tree is to replace a 40-plus-year-old silver maple that was taken down in January due to breakage.
    — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Some of the birds stood still and silent on their nests, but most were in motion, hopping around on branches at the top of their silver maples, raising a general ruckus.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Watch for it on fruitless mulberries, catalpas, cottonwoods, silver maples, sycamores and others.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2025
  • Caddo and trident maples are also good choices, but not silver maple, red maple and the smooth-bark hybrids such as Autumn Blaze.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Limbs as heavy as anvils are hammering to earth as the massive silver maple in the front yard is painstakingly deconstructed by a tireless team of arborists.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • Choose Trees Wisely Some trees, such as silver maples, have weaker wood and tend to drop sticks in the slightest breeze—not to mention branches and limbs when there’s a storm.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Almost any large, mature tree can develop surface roots, but species like sycamore, poplar, willow, silver maple, and, of course, bald cypress, famous for its knees, are most likely to show their roots.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 June 2026

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