How to Use wintergreen in a Sentence

wintergreen

noun
  • Thick waxy leaves and berries have a characteristic wintergreen scent when crushed.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Feb. 2025
  • This link will show you the wintergreen Pixel 9 for $799, which is full price.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The leathery green leaves of wintergreen contrast well with its white flowers in summer, followed by bright red berries in fall.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The next day, the same mouse was put in a distinctly different box—one with the scent of wintergreen and a grid floor, for example.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013
  • That habit happens to come in ten different flavors, ranging from wintergreen to citrus.
    — Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Online, 20 May 2025
  • And the scent — wintergreen, bergamot, and of course, lavender — is downright sinus-opening.
    — Claire Valentine, The Cut, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There’s ample spice and heat present, along with a bit of sweetness and notes of maple, brown sugar, white pepper, cinnamon toast, wintergreen, and licorice.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Fire & Ice Massage employs cooling wintergreen and hot stones.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Swedish Match sells its snus under the brand name, General, in mint, wintergreen and other flavors.
    — Matthew Perrone, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Essential oils such as menthol, spearmint, eucalyptus, wintergreen, tea tree and peppermint are at the core of this body cleanser.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • The taste-of-the-Midwest flavor is lovely, much quieter than maple's robust bite, with gentle citrus and wintergreen notes.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • The handmade cube contains all-natural menthol, wintergreen, and camphor.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, cassia, black pepper, and wintergreen all have the potential to irritate skin as well.
    — Sarah Madaus, Allure, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The drink contains notes of sassafras, wintergreen and licorice, with special ingredients of molasses, honey, and vanilla.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • Flavors from the period like clove and sassafras have given way to an ambiguous array of what might best be called fruit-adjacent flavors, and wintergreen.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The product's main active ingredients are horseradish, wintergreen and cayenne.
    — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Among the essential oils that are toxic to pets are cinnamon, citrus, lemon, pennyroyal, peppermint, pine, sweet birch, tea tree, thyme, wintergreen and ylang ylang.
    — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 17 Jan. 2018
  • This spot-on flea treatment for dogs is made with all-natural ingredients, such as geraniol and wintergreen oil, which work together to repel fleas, ticks, and even mosquitoes.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • This natural shampoo coddles your scalp with aloe leaf juice, baobab 0il, and wintergreen, spearmint, and peppermint oils, so you're left with nothing but clean, moisturized, and healthy hair.
    — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The Pixel 9 is available in four colors, peony, wintergreen, porcelain and obsidian.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • This herbal repellent is made with a blend of essential oils, including geraniol, wintergreen, and almond oil, to create a potent mixture that not only repels fleas and ticks but is also safe for your dog.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2023
  • These pouches come in popular flavors like wintergreen and cinnamon and are generally attractive to younger people who don’t understand the risks of nicotine.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The first three of those colors come from the Pixel 9 range, but iris is new, looking almost purple, and takes the place of wintergreen which now becomes a Pixel 9 exclusive.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Boppie always had yellow butterscotch and pink wintergreen candies to share from his shirt pocket, and the huge bowls of popcorn, along with Shasta root-beer floats, were delightfully devoured by all.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2017
  • Shah says oils like cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, cassia, black pepper, and wintergreen can be irritating and recommends always using proper dilution and doing a skin patch test first.
    — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 7 May 2018
  • With just a hint of wintergreen oil, this was the preferred coca of the Inca, not to mention the key ingredient in the secret formula of Coca-Cola.
    — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Menthol and Olbas oil (a mixture of peppermint, eucalyptus, cajeput, wintergreen, juniper, and clove) may cause redness and irritation to the eyes.
    — Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • These include wintergreen, golden star (Chrysogonum virginianum), and barren strawberry.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Feb. 2026
  • That’s good, but Amazon, which matches this price for the 128GB storage model in obsidian and wintergreen, beats it for the peony colorway only.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Less effective but still helpful options include wintergreen oil, geranium oil, pennyroyal oil, and rosemary oil, which showed a 60 to 85 percent reduction in stink bug attraction to a bait trap.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023

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