How to Use dogwood in a Sentence

dogwood

noun

• The furniture is made of dogwood.
• 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
• In October, the bigleaf maples turn yellow and dogwoods put on their deep red and purple hues.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2024
• 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, 12 July 2011
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024