How to Use camphor in a Sentence

camphor

noun

• Last year’s wet winter brought the camphor back to life after years of drought killed it.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Some people add camphor to the oil before applying it to the skin.
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
• Finally, it's smoked in a gentle camphor wood fire, with a chef having to change the wood midway through the process.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 May 2021
• This elegant novel leaves a haunting scent of camphor in the air.
  — Susan Wyndham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• Some restaurants will use special types of wood, such as camphor wood or lychee wood, to give the bird a special smoky taste.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• After, Adibi put camphor oil in a glass of water and rubbed the mixture on the corpse’s forehead, palms, knees, foot and fingertips.
  — Melissa Etehadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Spices are half the transformation: ginger, allspice and cumin, built to warm; thyme, with its kiss of camphor; bay leaves for a piney depth.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Surrounded by mountains that form the face of a tiger, the basin is lined by pathways, dense camphor trees and Taiwan acacia.
  — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
• Aged Puerh tea often comes with the smell of camphor mothballs and old newspaper, which some would say is normal.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• Burned black and split open, the camphor trees outside it initially were believed lost—but a few years after the blast, new growth began to appear.
  — Amy Briggs, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2020
• Camphoraceous: The herbal, woody, warm-cool scent of camphor, eucalyptus, and thyme.
  — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• Kelpie finishes long with the aroma of molasses from the initial nosing returning, and with notes of deep-sea kelp, dank moss and camphor.
  — Jim Brucker, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• The food is prepared in a gleaming steel kitchen and served at a brightly illuminated camphor-wood counter with 16 seats.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• The dominant note is filé, ground sassafras leaves, which lends a flavor somewhere between root beer and camphor.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017
• The tongue-tingling peppercorns add warm touches of camphor and citrus.
  — Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 4 June 2018
• The crews were targeting about a dozen trees in the uplands, including towering camphors.
  — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The vendor has other unique blends, like a candle that includes camphor (a type of evergreen), citrus and berry fragrances.
  — Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• There’s just enough of its camphor undertone to bring dimension, without smacking of medicine.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Keep bugs at bay by planting the lavandin variety, which has a high concentration of camphor.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 3 Apr. 2023
• Look for treatments that use ingredients such as camphor, zinc, and sulfur.
  — Marissa Desantis, Teen Vogue, 17 Oct. 2017
• These patches also have camphor, menthol, and methyl salicylate in them (think: Icy Hot), which likely adds to the relief.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2019
• But the research just isn't there to say whether the other stuff that brands advertise leaving out — like xylene, gluten, and camphor — is harmful or penetrates nails, says Rieder.
  — Allure, 12 Sep. 2021
• So time had a scent, of warm, sweet sandalwood, cooling camphor, cypress with its evergreen kiss — and under it all, a char on the air, a memory of something set on fire.
  — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• Leu Gardens is highlighted due to the towering camphor trees that lined the driveway when Harry P. Leu resided within the urban green space.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
• The brand's Rescue Mask provides a mixture of almond, honey, and caolin clay to cleanse the pores, while camphor extract reduces skin’s inflammation.
  — Akili King, Vogue, 28 May 2021
• Volunteers in Santee planted live oaks, camphor and Arizona ash trees.
  — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Because of its resistance to insects, pleasing grain pattern and scent, camphor has long been used for furniture to store clothing.
  — Carolyn Patten | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• To test his hypothesis, the physician dosed a man with schizophrenia with a seizure-inducing chemical called camphor.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Weathers also collects and uses camphor glass in some of her jewelry designs.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• After the evening meal, eat lettuce, drink wine, and rub an ointment made of the oil of violets or camphor on the temples. Dissolve a mixture of poppy seeds, lettuce seeds, balsam, saffron, and sugar and cook it in poppy juice.
  — Jessica Brown, CNN, 15 May 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024