How to Use tulip tree in a Sentence

tulip tree

noun
  • Hickories, elms, birches, and tulip trees tend to be more on the yellow side.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Brown recommends looking out for the tulip trees with pale green and orange flowers.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Brown recommends looking out for the tulip trees with pale green and orange flowers.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Its aspens are growing at twice the speed normally expected, with fragrant sumac and tulip trees racing to catch up.
    — Cara Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • And in July, the queen of the garden — the African tulip tree — opens its fantastic fiery-red flowers.
    — Chris Ross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • In the lead-up to summer, tulip trees and hop trees become dotted with small, black cocoons around the eastern Great Lakes.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The group planted a tulip tree near the Phillips Park Visitors Center as well.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Then small armies of volunteers would descend on the site in southeastern Kentucky and plant tulip trees, oaks, pines and chestnuts.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The new set of trees that were planted a few weeks ago include hickory, hackberry, Kentucky coffee and tulip trees.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
  • The first trees chosen for the project were shagbark hickory, tulip trees, sassafras, black tupelo, hackberry and swamp white oak.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The tulip poplar, or tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), isn’t a true poplar but is related to magnolia trees.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
  • Crape myrtle trees, pentas (a tropical plant with small red flowers), tulip tree, yellow bells and magnolia are just some of the plants that can be seen throughout.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Also plant pest-resistant crops like boxwood, hollies, common lilac, magnolia, hemlock, holly, oak, tulip tree, and sweet gum.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 June 2026
  • Elliott suggests a tulip tree, which will grow up to 50 feet tall and produce yellow flowers that attract pollinators and lightning bugs.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • An outdoor amphitheater, framed by tulip trees and white oaks, plays host to the commencement every year, and more and more buildings’ roofs are being transformed into gardens.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2018
  • These are characterized by temperate deciduous forest species such as tulip trees, oaks, and hickories.
    — Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Outside lies Frogmore’s vast garden, which is filled with lakes, and bridges, as well as over 4,000 trees and shrubs, including tulip trees and redwoods.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Other native tree alternatives include tulip trees and serviceberries.
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The Indiana Department of Natural Resources suggests looking for morels near dead elms, tulip trees and in beech-maple forests.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The team was able to develop long-lasting modern analogues for three scent stations dedicated to Cretaceous plants, including cypress resin, ginger root and tulip trees.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Honeylocust ginkgo, buckeyes and tulip tree leaves, for example, turn yellow, while sugar and Japanese maples, sweetgum, sumac and pin oaks turn orange or reddish as the weather cools.
    — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Newfields monitored the installation for safety over the years, knowing that its soft wood — carved from a native Indiana tulip tree — had a limited lifetime, Wright said.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Seven of the trees – yellow birch, northern catalpa, northern white cedar, white (American) elm, northern pin oak and tulip tree, along with the American beech – are in Porter County.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Amid towering columns of 150-year-old tulip trees and oaks, the woodland floor launches the growing season with tens of thousands of flowering bulbs first planted a century ago by du Pont and since increased by self-seeding.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020

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