How to Use tupelo in a Sentence

tupelo

noun
  • These monoliths face three longleaf pine trees and are surrounded by a grove of tupelo trees.
    — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2021
  • And God was not waiting for artists among tupelo gum trees or brackish marsh or duckweed.
    — Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Try coasting among the tupelo trees, with trunks that stretch wide into the water, through Cedar Creek.
    — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Wait, what are these Kentucky-type plants doing in this Florida cypress tupelo swamp?
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But Tonsmeire spots plants that tolerate salt water too far upstream, and remembers the loss of tupelo trees.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Snyder noted that trees planted so far include dawn redwood, sugar maple, horse chestnut, redbud, crabapple and tupelo.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 May 2020
  • There are no cypress-tupelo swamp mitigation banks available to offset the functions that would be damaged by the pipeline construction.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The 163-mile pipeline project runs across the Atchafalaya River basin, which includes fragile cypress-tupelo swamps.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • That includes freshwater wetlands, cypress and tupelo swamps and other types of natural resource restoration.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Nurseries donated other plants, including 58 tupelo trees, each one representing a person lost in the attack.
    — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Although Florida also produces honey from orange blossoms, gallberries and wildflowers, the honey from white tupelo gum trees ranks highest in price and flavor.
    — Jennifer Kay, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Native cypress and tupelo trees that once covered vast acreages across the Southeast, that can grow in most of the eastern half of North America — here’s a natural remnant right here in the middle of my race.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Ranging from 40 to 70 feet at maturity, the tupelo is a deciduous native tree with a similar hardiness range to the serviceberry.
    — Campbell Vaughn, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Apalachicola River of North Florida in healthier times plunged deeply into tupelo forests, where the flooding waters brewed into an organic energy drink for a web of life that included a bay acclaimed for oysters.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2020

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