How to Use elderberry in a Sentence

elderberry

noun

• Cankers appear on an elderberry as sunken wood or flesh on the trunk or stem.
  — oregonlive, 23 May 2020
• This year, one of our key finds was an elderberry farmer in Randolph, for our syrup.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2020
• David’s elderberry wine smells like tart red fruit that’s been crushed in a mortar and pestle with a pinch of red brick dust.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2021
• Quince, elderberry, and floribunda rose are just a few of the key components to the scent.
  — Nora Maloney, Vanities, 1 May 2017
• My son comes to my home after work every night and pours me my elderberry wine.
  — Mary G. Pepitone, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Stop to sit on a bench under the shade of a Catalina cherry tree and savor the views at a lookout beneath an elderberry tree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Logan described the crisp taste as a mix between elderberry and chamomile, with a fruity aroma.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Logan described the crisp taste as a mix between elderberry and chamomile, with a fruity aroma (frankly that's hard to believe, but OK).
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• The farm's first elderberry crop will be ripe for picking sometime in August.
  — Sarah Michels, The Enquirer, 10 June 2021
• The creamy white blossoms are edible, and so are the elderberries that grow on the shrubs later in the summer, but the plant itself is mildly toxic.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2018
• Bay laurel leaves, elderberry and prickly pears can all be found growing in the wild of San Luis Obispo County.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• In current times Elm & Rye’s elderberry gummies are used to prevent cold and flu symptoms.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Common elderberry fruit is a food source for birds, and its thickets provide habitat.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
• Hollow and pithy stemmed plants such as Joe Pye weed, bee balm, mountain mint, swamp milkweed and elderberry are also ideal for eggs and young insects.
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• With crabapple, pear, plum and elderberry trees; with high bush cranberries.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• So: Is elderberry juice really something that can replace the flu shot?
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• What’s more, the elderberry extract helps balance the skin’s microbiome.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2022
• An ecosystem of butterfly bushes and elderberries has taken root inside the stone walls and must be removed.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• Chef Patrick Jacobus concocts this gelato out of juniper brittle, white sage, elderberries, and red and white currants.
  — Marc Stirdivant, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• The old red Swedish Fish gets an update with new flavors, including sour peach, sour elderberry and sour blackberry at BonBon.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2024
• Accompanying the duck is a small plate of your choice, spicy spinach salad, fried rice (bolstered by bits of hamachi or perhaps beef) and a rich duck broth served with udon, pickled green elderberries and — yum — soft-cooked egg.
  — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
• In commercially made elderberry syrups, the dosage is often two teaspoons per day.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2020
• After spending the day outside rototilling the vegetable garden, mowing the grass and picking elderberries for jelly, there was no way those steaks were going to be cooked.
  — Cincinnati.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• These include native grasses, wildflowers and weeds along with shrubs and vines such as sumac, elderberry and blackberry.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2020
• According to the brand, each is infused with a proprietary blend of artichoke leaves, elderberries, green tea leaves, and muscadine grapes.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
• The ladies offer each new guest some homemade elderberry wine whose secret ingredients – arsenic, strychnine and cyanide – have a lethal kick.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
• There’s evidence that elderberry is effective at treating the flu, as well.
  — Carrie Murphy, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Botryosphaeria canker, Diaporthe stem canker and Nectria canker are among diseases that affect elderberry.
  — oregonlive, 23 May 2020
• Shire’s wheat beer, only 3.4 percent alcohol, is flavored with elderberries from Black Bear Farm in nearby Savoy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• These include over 140 species traditionally used by the Chumash, such as tule grass for matting and thatching houses, and elderberries for crafting whistles and bows.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024