How to Use bald cypress in a Sentence

bald cypress

noun

• On the summit of the mound stood a grove of enormous bald cypress trees.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Two of the finest conifers — the dawn redwood and the bald cypress — lose their needles in winter.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• My bald cypress tree is sending up huge roots above the ground.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2023
• Large live oaks and bald cypress seem to be good survivors.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Large live oaks and bald cypress seem to be good survivors.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2022
• Now there's a bald cypress on the St. Paul campus that's thriving.
  — Sarah Barker, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• While Iroquois has the city's tallest tree, George Rogers Clark has the oldest: a more than 200-year-old bald cypress.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2019
• The tree species include bald cypress, tulip and sycamore, all native trees.
  — Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2017
• During the last ice age, bald cypresses grew in what was then a swamp a hundred miles from the ocean.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The miniature trees were like perfect haikus: the bald cypress, the Catlin elm, the Foemina juniper.
  — Reif Larsen, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2018
• The flooded bald cypress of Reelfoot is a historic stopover for waterfowl.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 Jan. 2021
• These trees are bald cypress and they are scheduled to be placed into planting pits on the corner of Main Street and Greenville Avenue this week.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2020
• The sanctuary is home to the world’s largest remaining old-growth bald cypress forest.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
• Home to some of the state's most beautiful parks, this Hill Country region is known for its limestone bluffs, deep canyons, and bald cypress.
  — Karla Pope, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
• A hundred years ago, the bald cypress range didn't go much beyond Florida.
  — Sarah Barker, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The art piece is one of 14 benches along The Woodlands Waterway and features a great blue heron with a fish in its mouth sitting atop a bald cypress trunk.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• 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
• Farther back, there are bald cypress trees, root systems knuckling their way out of the mud, and rowboats passing through the bayou.
  — Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020
• Monty, a bald cypress that has stood for nine hundred years, is dealing with both drought and the incursion of Trump’s border wall.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2021
• Towering over us at 126 feet was the state champion bald cypress tree.
  — Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
• The bald cypress was named the official Louisiana state tree in 1963.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
• Surrounding the sculpture are rings of bald cypress and Princeton elm trees, echoing the circular nature of the plaza.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 July 2022
• Take a walk along the park's 2.4-mile Boardwalk Loop trail, where bald cypress trees eerily jut out of the water – just keep a lookout for alligators.
  — Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021
• Dimensional lace extended beyond the hem of the sweeping train in the shape of bald cypress needles.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• My durable tree list includes live oaks, sweet gums, crape myrtles, magnolias, sycamores, ligustrums, winged elms, bald cypress and most palms.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• At its base, partially covered by moss and bald cypress roots, the tint that enchanted the colonial world is still visible.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• 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
• In North Carolina, pine, red maple, sweetgum and bald cypress forests are being replaced by saltmarsh.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2021
• Peggy Valeniti said in an interview that the couple has been good stewards of the property, keeping the grass mowed and planting 22 bald cypress trees on the land, which is hard against the lake.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Tour this park’s namesake river on a 10.4-mile trail through bottomland and bald cypress forest, home to whitetail deer, otters, and feral hogs.
  — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024