How to Use sweetgrass in a Sentence

sweetgrass

noun
  • Today, storms and sea tear up the marsh and the shore and the sweetgrass.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The air echoes with talk and songs, and the smell of sweetgrass filters in from outside.
    — Anna V. Smith/high Country News, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • It had been kept by a woman who revered it as a household spirit and filled its eyes with sweetgrass.
    — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Along the marsh edge, look for sweetgrass, which shows off brilliant purple and creamy white plumes when days shorten.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
  • The drive is lost because of the obstacles that are put on sweetgrass basket weaving.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • There are few souvenirs as iconic as a Charleston sweetgrass basket.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • There are few souvenirs as iconic as a Charleston sweetgrass basket.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • If all else fails, simply burning a stick of sage or a braid of sweetgrass—my personal favorite—is a classic move.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2020
  • After a long day of sightseeing, give your weary body some TLC with this sweetgrass bath bomb.
    — Claire Stern, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Here, the high desert’s classic juniper-sage musk is honeyed by the scent of sweetgrass—and the geosmin scent of fertile earth is there, too, in the low notes.
    — Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Wabanaki peoples are renowned for their baskets, often woven from strips of brown ash trees and gathered sweetgrass.
    — Kate Olson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • The plants are mostly used for medicinal purposes, and, except for sweetgrass, their names are kept private.
    — Kylie Mohr, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Lighting a stick of palo santo, like burning a bundle of sage or sweetgrass, is believed to chase away misfortune.
    — Emily Witt, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
  • Baskets made of South Carolina sweetgrass are on display throughout this space.
    — Emily Nonko, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • My suite was near the smudging room, where cedar, sage, and sweetgrass are burned during traditional cleansing rituals.
    — Craig Taylor, Smithsonian, 10 July 2017
  • All materials — from marble, to sweetgrass, to pixels — have equal potential.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • During prenatal time, Thomas burned sweetgrass in her house every morning and her husband, Michael Thomas, made tea for her.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Martin describes broths made from ginger, seaweed, sweetgrass, peppercrab, frog, fish, mutton, venison, dog, and elephant.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Smith, who keeps a 30-inch-tall rounded sweetgrass basket in her own foyer to act as a hidey-hole for shoes that might otherwise languish on the floor, just wants to ensure that people don’t forget about it.
    — ELLE Decor, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Gullah/Geechee artisans, who make intricate baskets for community use and tourist sales, rely on sweetgrass gathered from sand dunes and brackish marshlands.
    — Dasia Moore, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Seeking to scratch a creative itch, Hill started visiting her Auntie Laura, who made traditional Haudenosaunee baskets from black ash and sweetgrass.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • After Emancipation, weavers experimented with sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto fronds to create more elaborate designs, turning the craft into an art — and a source of income.
    — Deborah Needleman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Our small-group tour began solemnly a few minutes earlier in a clearing at Cascade Ponds, with Ede leaving behind a small offering of tobacco—one of four sacred plants, alongside sage, red cedar, and sweetgrass.
    — Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The craftsmanship relies on turning materials like sweetgrass, black ash, spruce root and porcupine quills into curvaceous, geometrically astounding baskets.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The craftsmanship relies on turning materials like sweetgrass, black ash, spruce root and porcupine quills into curvaceous, geometrically astounding baskets.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Though the craft has traditionally been passed down from mother to daughter across Gullah Geechee communities, Alston learned the skill from his mother-in-law 22 years ago and is now a fifth-generation sweetgrass weaver.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • Henrietta Snype, a 69-year-old sweetgrass basket artist from the Four Mile settlement community, was among the twenty-five people attending the March 19 event.
    — Time, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in the historic city market in Charleston, South Carolina, remembers climbing onto the table at her grandmother’s booth downtown when the floodwaters rushed by.
    — Michelle Liu, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Moreover, of the 31-member cabinet, 16 chose not to be sworn in by religious oath—including Carolyn Bennett, the minister for indigenous and northern affairs, who took her oath holding an eagle feather and a tuft of sweetgrass.
    — Adam Rasmi, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2015
  • That culture, which also blends West Indian influence, includes crafts like sweetgrass basket weaving, music, spirituality and philosophy, heritage agriculture, and a distinctive patois with rhythms and pronunciation all its own.
    — John Huey, Southern Living, 10 July 2020

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