How to Use sugar maple in a Sentence

sugar maple

noun
  • One of the first trees to greet you outside is an enormous sugar maple.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Berlinghof removed the drill from the sugar maple and the sap was flowing.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The good ones are the sugar maples, their leaves ablaze each fall in yellow, red and orange.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The state also produces some of the best sugar maple and red oak timber in the world.
    — Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Shitakes need to be grown on a hardwood like oak, ironwood or sugar maple.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Jerry shared some of this knowledge while pissing near the eighth tee, against a sugar maple.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Many birds steer clear of beech and sugar maple, instead choosing oak trees for nesting.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The orange donor dot has now been moved to a larger sugar maple leaf that is more pronounced on the card.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
  • One of the remaining trees is a sugar maple that the couple has tapped in the past to get their own maple syrup.
    — Nate Owen, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Red maples don scarlet, and sugar maples -- well known for vivid displays -- may sport the full fall palette.
    — cleveland, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Help survey maple trees that are part of a national sugar maple research study.
    — Post-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • My aunt walked down the garden path to exchange wedding vows beneath the shade of the sugar maple.
    — Leigh Crandall, Country Living, 4 June 2020
  • On the distillery tour, visitors can see where the sugar maple wood is burned for the charcoal.
    — al, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Bruce Hopper grabs a bucket to be hung from a sugar maple tree the old-fashioned way.
    — John Tlumacki, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Campbell, a sugar maple planted in Cody’s honor is no longer a sapling.
    — Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • There's even an old-growth sugar maple and American beech forest.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Reed said the lack of rain likely would apply only to the sugar maples, which would tend to mute the red pigments.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The March full moon is also known as the sap moon, since this is the time of year when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
  • It is then distilled seven times before it is triple filtered and ran through sugar maple charcoal.
    — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
  • Think of the difference between a Christmas tree and a sugar maple.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The March full moon is also known as the sap moon, because this is the time of year when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The March full moon is also known as the sap moon, because this is the time of year when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But sugar maples can produce yellow, orange or sometimes red colors.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The couple have also cut species that are struggling because of global warming, such as spruces and sugar maples.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Read about the first-grade class that, in 1982, took a trip to tap a sugar maple, boil the sap, and share some adorable moments.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • For years, people stopped to stare at the sugar maple tree in its fall glory in Sandra Peters’ front yard.
    — Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • Trying to train a sugar maple to grow a 60-foot-tall straight trunk is an exercise in futility.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The continent's iconic sugar maple trees — revered for their sap and fall colors — can’t escape the changing climate.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
  • The black bear is the state animal, the sugar maple is the state tree, the cardinal is the state bird, and the rhododendron is the state flower.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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

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