How to Use foxtail in a Sentence
foxtail
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Don was there the first time Vladimir treed his first foxtail in the backyard.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Dec. 2020
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My dog runs out in front with his nose to the ground, trying to tree a foxtail or gray.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 12 Jan. 2021
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The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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Keep the foxtails out, avoid them on walks, and invest in a special hood that protects your dog’s head and face.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
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Beds close to the house are layered with foxtail ferns, autumn ferns and gingers.
—Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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The fox tricks the barnyard animals in the foxtail version.
—New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
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My older son marveled at the new terrain: oak trees draped in Spanish moss, camelia and foxtail ferns, the ground alive with lizards and crabs.
—William Torrey, Longreads, 5 May 2022
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Look for small branches resembling foxtails, and dark green needles in clusters of five.
—Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
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For outdoors, hedera English ivy and foxtail fern work well in low light, while most sedums and asparagus fern need brighter light.
—Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
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Another peril is foxtails, a spiky grass with barbed seeds that can burrow into fur.
—NBC News, 11 July 2019
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Deck pointed at wild cucumber, water hemp and foxtail — all weeds.
—Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
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Unlike the replicas on sale now, however, Newton’s had what appeared to be mini foxtails attached to the heels.
—Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 10 May 2017
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In addition to balms and salves that can help your four-legged friend, there is also a product that can help protect your dog from foxtails embedding in their ears, eyes and nose.
—Nicole Forsyth, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
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Those who attended the garden tour got to see Domanski-Miville’s foxtail lilies in bloom — tall, odd wands of sulfur yellow.
—Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
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Once we were finished, each of us would take home the equivalent of one quarter of a 335-pound side, which had come from an animal that had spent its life in a pasture feasting on foxtail and fescue.
—Vogue, 21 June 2018
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His compositions might consist of a single branch with a cluster of moss green dwarf chestnuts, or loose stems of pale water lilies or a spray of feathery foxtail barley.
—New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
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Under foxtail palms, our table groaned with roasted-pumpkin gnocchi, Moroccan lamb, ceviche of squid fished from the balmy waters far below.
—Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2022
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Ray Caranci, landscape planner for West Palm Beach, said a previous beautification project downtown put in the foxtail palms because the design couldn’t accommodate canopy trees.
—Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
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Those who do are rewarded with a meticulous composition rendering everything from oregano to hydrangeas to foxtail and clematis.
—Alex Ronan, Vogue, 27 July 2018
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Among the virtual rainbow of plants are foxtail agave, sea lavender, society garlic, blue chalksticks, lantana, Texas sundrop, paddle plants, butterfly bush, cape plumbago, agapanthus and a small bougainvillea bush.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
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That treatment will prevent germination of annual bluegrass (Poa annua), rescuegrass, foxtail and ryegrass.
—Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 17 May 2018
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