How to Use dogwood in a Sentence

dogwood

noun
  • The furniture is made of dogwood.
  • My dogwood tree developed weird leaves this year, looking stringy (slender, stunted, and wimpy) and not producing as much growth.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • At the last minute, it was changed to the dogwood blossom.
    Retroindy, Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2017
  • The edges of the city smelled like wet earth and fresh powder; the dogwoods were in bloom.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Dead dogwood trees that stood for ages in the front yard stand no more.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The lodge is open year-round but shines in the spring when the vibrant dogwood blossoms coat the trees.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Out of all the trees in our yard, only the dogwood suffered.
    oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2021
  • All are in harm's way, along with maples, cherries and dogwoods.
    USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The long slender red dogwood twigs add height and drama to the table.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • One of the most iconic spring-flowering trees in the landscape is the dogwood.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor said a red dogwood hedge will also be planted on the south side of the church.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The ‘Venus’ dogwood with white bracts that look like flowers is also a hardy tree.
    oregonlive, 28 June 2020
  • The all-glass walls still feel private thanks to a green forest of pines, dogwoods, and maples and a lack of neighbors.
    Megan Barber, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2018
  • And the cast bronze basins of drinking fountains are based on dogwood leaves and blossoms.
    Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Spores can live in the soil for a long time and may infect another dogwood.
    oregonlive, 28 May 2022
  • Ancient tiling appears to run all the way from South Park Boulevard to the lake, along with a very old hedge of gray dogwood.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Fall color appears first in the reds of sourwoods, dogwoods and red maples.
    Karen Chávez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • That will be missing this year, along with the azalea and dogwood blooms from having to move it from April.
    Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • For example, a white oak can grow 80 feet tall, while a dogwood might grow 20 feet.
    Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • At the south side of their Lannon stone home are more lush flowerbeds, as well as a Japanese maple and a Kousa dogwood.
    Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
  • The red berries of dogwood are eaten by birds, but should be avoided by people.
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Red osier dogwood is a native blooming shrub that is found along stream beds.
    oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Trees which are available are maple, oak, conifer, dogwoods, spruce and redbud.
    Forrest Sellers, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And if that’s not amazing enough for you, consider the red-stemmed dogwood (Cornus sericea) and its close cousins.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Nov. 2019
  • There would be cherry blossoms in the huge vases, maybe dogwood.
    Rachel Cohen, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2020
  • In our yard, a single, ancient dogwood survived, my wife’s pride, a reminder of what this used to be.
    Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • In our yard, a single, ancient dogwood survived, my wife’s pride, a reminder of what this used to be.
    Southern Living, 12 July 2011
  • Red twig dogwood will grow well in moist soil conditions too, so that should not be a factor.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2021
  • The landscaper put in a white dogwood tree on the southwest corner of the property.
    oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Except for those scarce days in between when the air is gentle and flower petals rain down from the dogwood trees onto the street.
    Rebecca Pacheco, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2019

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