How to Use crape myrtle in a Sentence

crape myrtle

noun

• The worst seem to be the ones backed by the neighbor’s oak and crape myrtle.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
• Be the courageous one who does not top the crape myrtles.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
• What are these eggs/insects on the trunk of my crape myrtle?
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Sep. 2021
• Spencer says crape myrtles are in his top five of favorite trees.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village.
  — Ben Finley, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• The crape myrtle bark scale has crept into the D.C. region in recent years.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Your plant has been attacked by crape myrtle bark scale.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2022
• Brown made it across a vacant lot next to his house, crossed the road and crashed into a crape myrtle in Gordon’s front yard.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Some of the leaves on our crape myrtle trees are turning yellow to orange and dropping.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• The nursery folks planted these crape myrtles probably too close to the house.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Early to mid-August would be the latest to trim ends of crape myrtle branches and expect more blooms.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• Our crape myrtle shrub is sprouting vigorous shoots from the base.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
• On the right side of the yard, white crape myrtles, red knockout roses and nandina add color and depth.
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2018
• The peninsula straddles the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, a flat strip of farm fields and fishing villages, pine trees and crape myrtles and marsh grass.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• Most crape myrtles assume a very pleasant shape and size with very little pruning.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Southern trees like crape myrtle and longleaf pine didn’t have enough mentions to make the final cut but would have been among the most-Southern things in the entire database.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• 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
• There is only one mature tree, a large crape myrtle at the southwest end of the park, which somehow managed to survive the site’s previous life as a parking lot.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
• There are a couple reasons there might be restrictions on your crape myrtle order.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2022
• Avoid buying crape myrtles if the nursery does not have a chart reporting mildew resistance.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2018
• Trees include Wise apple, magnolia, birch, maple, cedar and crape myrtle.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2018
• About 40 years ago my wife moved a volunteer purple crape myrtle from a cemetery in Dardanelle.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2020
• Maybe a crape myrtle, St Luke’s flowering plum or chaste tree could be substituted.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• Removing the seedpods on large crape myrtles would not be practical.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• And finally, the best little tree choices for those areas in full sun include desert willow, Eve's necklace, crape myrtle and mesquite.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
• That prime dominion includes about 65 crape myrtle trees.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Under the shade of a tent and a couple of crape myrtle trees, the Oklahoma crew popped bottles and can tabs with a handful of Walker’s family members and other friends.
  — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2020
• The combination products have herbicides that will soak into the soil and could damage your crape myrtle.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 2 July 2020
• Though most of the trees were reserved for pickup, some were available for same-day adoption — coast live oaks, Canary Island pines, a crape myrtle with showy summer flowers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• True to the period of the house, this one encloses a parterre garden accented by crape myrtle, camellia, sago palm, and banana.
  — Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2012

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