How to Use ficus in a Sentence

ficus

noun

• This ficus will do best in the warmest room of the house.
  — Lennie Larkin, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Who bought a ficus in the city and took it to New Jersey?
  — Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Large windows and potted ficus frame the view of the trees.
  — Christine Lennon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2021
• Overhead, strings of lights are attached to the ficus trees that line each side of the street.
  — Bryce Alderton, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, 24 Oct. 2017
• Among our plant menagerie are a 40-year-old cactus and a 27-year-old ficus tree.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2020
• Beyond this room was a smaller room with a ficus tree and a couch and a wall of glass facing the woods.
  — Matthew Klam, Esquire, 4 June 2017
• Crews will remove four of the massive ficus trees that line Tempe City Hall.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• A few of the large ficus trees in the exhibit aren’t new, however.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2017
• The tree appears full with more than 1,000 leaves and a twisted trunk typical of the ficus tree.
  — Popular Science, 7 Oct. 2020
• Its trees now include a hibiscus, a banyan, a ficus and a fig, Shabolin said.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Ah, the wonders of the great outdoors, just beyond the fake ficus trees and sliding doors of the hotel lobby.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Get some vines that cascade down, or a palm in the corner, or a ficus, which doesn’t require a lot of water.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 May 2021
• The gnarled ficus along one of my regular running routes.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2022
• The artificial ficus tree has more than 1,000 deep green leaves, which are adhered to the trunk and its many branches.
  — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2023
• Also known as banyan trees, ficus audreys have emerald-green leaves and thick stems.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 2 Feb. 2023
• Anti-arbor day The end is near for 51 ficus trees lining 24th Street in the Mission District.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
• Towering ficus trees keep the half-acre grounds private from both neighbors and golfers.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• And don’t be afraid to get a little messy repotting your favorite ficus.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• And while the master bedroom's glass walls overlook the green landscape of palms and ficus trees, the rooftop deck offers 360 views of the sunny neighborhood.
  — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 17 May 2016
• The ficus trees have caused structural damage to the building's foundation and are growing over the cement.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• When fully mature, the Alii ficus plant reaches about 60 inches, but is about 36 inches in height when it is shipped.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• The stores have closed, the waterfalls have stopped running and the original live ficus trees have been replaced with plastic palms.
  — Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 29 July 2022
• This ficus likes bright, indirect light and should be watered thoroughly when the top 1 to 2 inches of soil are dry.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2022
• Yet the ficus went out of his way one day to fling himself sideways during a fall to avoid landing on his owner, saving her life.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• My mother filled the apartment with philodendron and spider plant, ficus and fern.
  — Julie Buckner Armstrong, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Behind his house sits a two-story office and entertainment room that has three pairs of French doors and is flanked by rows of ficus trees that wrap the yard in shade.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Before the new landscaping, the blocklike white stucco building sat amid grass, with a few plants around its base, shaded by the large ficus.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
• The ficus trees provided heavy shade but limited what the couple could grow in their garden.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
• Seedlings are the most vulnerable, but popular plants like lobelia, bougainvillea and some ficus are especially sensitive to cold, too.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• As hoped, the ficus grew huge, but its roots destroyed sidewalks and roads, leading many to be felled; the workers rooted themselves too, though unofficially, and were deported in large number as anti-immigrant sentiment grew.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024