How to Use barberry in a Sentence

barberry

noun

• Brand believes his sterile barberry will be the first one to make it to market.
  — Theresa Sullivan Barger, courant.com, 1 June 2017
• What do these plants have in common: Callery pear trees, barberry shrubs and yellow flag iris?
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Lamb ribs are glazed in date and tamarind and finished with walnuts, barberries, and pickled hot chilies.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• Berberine is a chemical that’s found in plants and fruit, like barberries.
  — Ned Doyle, Robb Report, 19 July 2023
• The five-course prix-fixe menu starts with kuku sabzi, a labor-intensive dish that involves a garden's worth of fresh herbs, eggs, walnuts and barberries.
  — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Scatter half of barberries over and top with remaining rice.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
• El Calafate gets its name from the calafate berry (barberry), and there is a local legend that says whoever eats a calafate berry will return to Patagonia.
  — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• Yucca, red barberry, prickly pear cactus, catclaw and gray thorn line the russet, rocky trail.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
• Under them are a pencil cactus on a stand that turns an orange/red color; a red barberry; and a Weigela that has bright pink flowers, said Duckert.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
• The latter is a greatest hits of salads and dips and breads from the menu, anchored by what is perhaps the best egg dish on the East Side: the kuku, a sort of frittata shot through with green herbs, studded with barberries and creamy white beans.
  — Krista Simmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
• At the Iranian Club, steam tables overflow with kebabs, rice with barberries and pistachios, bread and stew.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• Research has shown black-legged ticks, which transmit Lyme disease, increase in areas of dense barberry stands.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 16 May 2023
• Japanese barberry has long been used as an ornamental, bushy plant because its leaves transform from green to a purplish color in the fall.
  — Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2021
• Rice is browned with meat — usually lamb or mutton — then stewed in a caldron called a kazan with onions, garlic and carrots, and spiced with cumin, coriander, barberries or raisins, marigold and pepper.
  — Charly Wilder, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Along the consistent but manageable climb to the falls, look for bluebells, wild strawberries and cute, yellow creeping barberry.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
• The brick Colonial-style home sat in an expanse of lawn that stretched from curb to foundation, with a few hedges of old-fashioned shrubs scattered around the edges, including the invasive exotic barberry.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• Depending on your family’s traditions, zereshk, dried barberries that are quite sour, and walnuts can be added.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 16 Mar. 2017
• Depending on your family’s traditions, zereshk, dried barberries that are quite sour, and walnuts can be added.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 16 Mar. 2017
• Anything with thorns or a strong scent, like barberry or herbs, are usually unappealing.
  — Jennifer Heilman, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Cook barberries, stirring often, until plumped slightly and warmed through, about 2 minutes.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
• Users say berberine, which is found in a number of plants, including barberry plants, helps curb appetite and improve blood sugar levels, resulting in weight loss.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 June 2023
• Egyptian lamb fattah and Persian chicken with barberry rice, according to The Telegraph.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2018
• In this faux-aged terra-cotta pot, the barberry rises above a green and coral pork and beans stonecrop (Sedum x rubrotinctum) and a parrot’s beak (Lotus maculatus), which dangles its soft stems over the edge.
  — Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• The dishes found in their pages — from pozole and pupusas to bibimbap and barberry rice — confirm that diversity is indeed delicious.
  — Sarah Henry, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• Prized for its bitter, tart, and tangy notes, the barberry fruit (which, again, contains berberine) is a favorite seasoning for Persian rice dishes, says Dr. Sarbaziha.
  — Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
• Examples are amur maple, burning bush, lily-of-the-valley, orange daylily, creeping bellflower and various barberry.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• The rule banned the ubiquitous Japanese barberry and and wintercreeper.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
• Some small trials have shown that berberine, a yellow compound extracted from many shrubs including barberry -- from which comes its name -- can improve both cholesterol and blood sugar.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2021
• Japanese barberry forms dense thickets, which limit the amount of light reaching the forest floor and impact forest regeneration, according to the DNR.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2023
• Black walnut, hawthorn or barberry make for a prickly, foreboding atmosphere.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024