How to Use Spanish moss in a Sentence

Spanish moss

noun

• In the Southeast, pairs build their nests, lined with Spanish moss or other soft vegetation, high in the crowns of tall trees such as pine, bald cypress, or cottonwood, near marshes, rivers, and swamps.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 24 June 2024
• Then, of course, there are the town squares draped in Spanish moss.
  — Rose Marie Walano, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2023
• Tendrils of Spanish moss tremble in the breeze, and the sand is soft beneath our feet.
  — Kiley Bense, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Take a ball of green Spanish moss in your hands and hollow out an opening with your thumbs.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
• Here, a wintery scene is set with moody Spanish moss and a roaring fire.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Feb. 2023
• It's filled it out with English ivy, which also grows in the backyard, plus Spanish moss. 5.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• In central Florida, there’s a place where live oak trees meet the blue sky and Spanish moss drips from each limb.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• The canopy of cypress trees creates a shaded world where Spanish moss, ferns and orchids thrive.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• My two-hour ride also stopped under Spanish moss, amid coastal scrub and along the boundary of a mangrove swamp.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• There’s a wealth of kudzu, potato vines, tree branches dripping with Spanish moss.
  — Kristen Arnett, Time, 15 Oct. 2022
• The unpaved state highway cuts through a slough crowded with bald cypress trees laden with Spanish moss and spidery air plants.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
• Wisps of Spanish moss, dangling vines and the nearby Windsor Ruins, an immense mansion burned in 1890, evoke a lost world.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Cover foam with Spanish moss, and finish with grapevine accents. Decorate the dining room with this easy-as-pie craft.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Other more expensive media, such as peat moss or Spanish moss, can be used.
  — Mike Harrelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• There are more than 600 different Tillandsia plants, and the most common is Spanish moss, which is neither Spanish nor moss.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• The swampy surrounds are full of otherworldly cypress trees dripping in Spanish moss and are a fun (and spooky) place to paddle, kayak or take a bayou tour.
  — Rebecca Treon, Chron, 11 Mar. 2022
• From the oldest Black church in North America to historic squares shaded by oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, there's so much to explore.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 26 Jan. 2024
• Thousands of music lovers descend upon the park to camp out beneath ancient live oak trees covered in Spanish moss.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• In addition to cardboard inserts that kept the pot and matching tray in place, a coco fiber mat and a layer of Spanish moss held soil in its container.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2023
• Established in 1938, the green space overlooks Lake Maitland and features towering oak trees with dangling Spanish moss that sways with the breeze.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Paddle through the bottomlands and between bald cypress trees covered in Spanish moss over Big Cypress Bayou, or weave through one of the paddling trails across the lake.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
• Angel Oak The surrounding Lowcountry, filled with live oak trees and Spanish moss, is just as picturesque as the historic homes downtown.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2023
• The two strike up an easy friendship: Every evening, Leanne throws a paper plane into Bayou’s window and the two meet under an oak tree with drooping Spanish moss.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• Trees weighed down by fruit or epiphytes such as ball moss or Spanish moss, like many Sugar Land trees, are also susceptible.
  — Juhi Varma, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
• Riders will be transported to the magical land of the bayou, complete with flowing Spanish moss and water lilies.
  — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024
• Seminole bat Lasiurus seminolus This reddish-brown bat likes to roost in clumps of Spanish moss that thrive on live oak branches.
  — Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• This Georgia barrier island will instantly get you in the spirit with its canopied oak trees dripping with Spanish moss and Christmas lights.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• Several benches provide a place to sit and read a book, have a picnic and observe textures found in the land: Spanish moss swaying in the breeze, the wrinkles of bark, plus moss and ferns growing on outstretched branches.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• The picturesque plot is accessed via a quarter-mile-long driveway lined with towering exotic trees, Spanish moss, and hundreds of orchids.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
• Location features such as a Georgia beach with huge sculptural tangles of driftwood or trees draped in Spanish moss are beautiful.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024