How to Use white ash in a Sentence

white ash

noun
  • The valley’s pines and oaks were charred, and much of the landscape was covered in white ash.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Most of the vegetation is charred black with a layer of white ash on top.
    — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • There are areas that are nothing but white ash and some little spindle trees.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • By 2010, millions of trees — white ash, green ash, blue ash — had succumbed.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In 2010, white ash and green ash trees were among the most common in Chicago.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In America, white ash plays a key role in the country’s national sport.
    — National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2016
  • Other clips posted on social media showed homes and streets blanketed in grayish white ash.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The earth lining the western side of State Route 87 in the area was charred black and dusted with white ash.
    — Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Another million white ash trees, now numbering about 3 million, have been lost.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • After the fire Ayers-Flood grabs a rag to wipe the layer of white ash that has settled on a small table nearby.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Preheat grill to medium-high (400 degrees, see cooking tip) allowing coals to burn down to white ash.
    — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Cars in Parking Lot 8 were covered by a thin layer of white ash in the early afternoon.
    — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Balaei said the ash that's been falling since the Glass Fire started on Sunday has mostly been burnt leaves and white ash.
    — Justin Lear and Hollie Silverman, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • One day, without a burn permit, my father set that rotting pile ablaze, and the 150-year-old structure was a mound of white ash by sundown.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • And, in a tip of the cap to our Slugger-making neighbors downtown, white ash — common in baseball bats — is used to enhance brewing.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Today, white mulberry, white ash and the invasive European buckthorn lead the pack.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The interior was finished with seven native wood species, including red oak, butternut and white ash.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In the native green and white ash tree, the galloping pace of destruction by the emerald ash borer seems to be leading to nothing short of extinction.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Northern Napa Valley, reliably verdant and lush at this time of year, became an eerie landscape of charred earth and white ash.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Ash is falling around the entire region and the BBC has some startling images of buildings on the volcano covered in thick white ash.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2014
  • The best woods include osage, Oregon yew, white ash, Southern red cedar, black walnut, black locust, apple, and mulberry.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Common trees in Brown County include the American beech, sugar maple, black walnut, shagbark hickory and white ash.
    — Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Two of the most colorful species of trees native to the Kansas City area are the white ash, which produce purplish-maroon colors, and green ash, which produce vibrant yellow.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017

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