How to Use dieback in a Sentence

dieback

noun

• Care for the tree by trimming off any loose bark and monitoring it during the next growing season for any branch dieback.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2024
• Many of our conifers are now showing stress and dieback.
  — oregonlive, 12 June 2022
• My tall phlox got a brown dieback starting at the bottom and working up the stalk to the flower.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• There is a good chance it is shoot tip dieback caused by Pseudomonas syringae.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• If the branches are not removed, the dieback will spread to all other branches.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
• There are a couple of common issues that might be to blame for the recent dieback.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• If they are pruned at this time of the year and a freeze occurs new growth may be damaged which results in some dieback.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Dec. 2021
• Any branch dieback that may occur as a result of bark loss can be trimmed away later.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• The recent dieback of western red cedars has also been linked to drought by area researchers.
  — Nathan Gilles, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
• Drowning and drought both kill roots, and the first symptom is dieback at the extremities (top).
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Gladiola corms and dahlia tubers: Let the first frost cause dieback and then dig them.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• This past year, my flowering quince shrub suffered some dieback from what I was told was fire blight.
  — Miri Talabac., Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2022
• Cold-injury symptoms may look like, or lead to the development of, cankers and diebacks.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• Giant conifer aphids can cause foliage to yellow, some needle drop or dieback of shoots.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
• Bacterial leaf spot can move into the stems, resulting in dieback of the ivy tips.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Adults and nymphs suck plant juices, causing leaf and fruit distortion, wilting, stunting, and tip dieback.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2018
• Cold Injury Freezing injury can cause death or dieback.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• The disease often infects branches on sycamores, causing girdling cankers and dieback.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• On sycamores, the disease often infects branches, causing girdling cankers and dieback.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• The fires risked damaging the roughly 3 million species that live in the Amazon—or, worse still, triggering a feedback loop of dieback in the forest.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2021
• This fungal disease can cause rapid dieback at the tips of some tree branches and can be confused with cicada damage.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 May 2021
• Almost as soon as dieback was spotted in England, Buggs started to sequence the ash genome, publishing the work in 2016.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Ash dieback fungus, for example, has spread from Poland throughout much of Europe and now threatens not just the ash tree but 955 other species.
  — Gregory Katz, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• Unfortunately, maple dieback seems to be a common problem of late throughout the Bay Area.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• According to the RMetS study, mass dieback in the Amazon rainforest could trigger one such climate tipping point.
  — Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Trees with root disease tend to have thin foliage (not full crowns), yellowing foliage, maybe top dieback and lots of smaller-than-normal cones (stress crop) in the crown also.
  — oregonlive, 24 July 2021
• Bell points to how some arborvitaes exhibited signs of dieback during the recent drought.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2021
• Late-season seed heads also indicate the time is nigh for seasonal dieback or outright plant death.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Trees can’t heal quite the way animals do, but with luck, this damage will remain minor and not cause significant dieback.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Symptoms of maple decline include partial or entire crown dieback, discoloration and reduced size of the leaves, crown thinning and death.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024