How to Use hackberry in a Sentence

hackberry

noun

• Down in the cool woods of the reserve, Oien opened a box chained to the base of a hackberry tree, and switched on the caller.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• Outside, a tire swing hangs from a huge hackberry tree.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2019
• On a windswept hill on the cemetery’s southern fringes, Huse pointed out a dwarf hackberry tree that is the co-champion in size in Virginia.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 17 Jan. 2018
• When my parents moved in 30 years ago, their neighbors had an enormous hackberry tree that dropped seeds into our yard.
  — Jessie Kissinger, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2020
• Lined with wolfberry shrubs and paloverde, mesquite and hackberry trees, the wash meanders in a northeast arch on the preserve’s far northwest edge.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• The mother trees are somewhere else, and the seeds have been brought in by birds (mulberries, hackberries) or the wind (cottonwoods, willows and box elders).
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
• The tree canopy at Minshall Alar Preserve includes hackberry, red maple and basswood, among many others.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• As the hills close in on the road, desert hackberry trees, although present as midsize shrubs earlier in the hike, suddenly appear as robust trees.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• The program features a workshop on creating a bonsai tree, e.g. elm, sycamore, oak and hackberry.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• This week in the garden Now is one of the best times to remove hackberry, Chinaberry, mulberry and other unwanted sprouts in the landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• Take the opportunity to prune off the stems of hackberry, mulberry and other unwanted seedlings in your shrub beds and fence lines.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Five types that come up commonly in the beds at our house are cottonwoods, willows, hackberries, mulberries and box elders.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
• So, too, were the tiny hackberries, persimmons, wolfberries and just about every other form of hard and soft mast on which the feral hogs had feasted during autumn.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• This product finishes the job on controlling unwanted seedlings, such as hackberry and mulberry, that have sprouted on your fence line or in the rose bed.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 7 May 2021
• Trees include Douglas fir, Colorado blue spruce, lodgepole pine, piñon pine and common hackberry.
  — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• Now also is a good time to control hardwood seedlings such as hackberry, mulberry and Chinaberry and vining weeds such as Smilax and catsclaw.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
• Some low-maintenance trees that come to mind are gingko, hackberry, Kentucky coffee tree and serviceberry.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
• The water runs fast, flashing between banks of oak and willow, cottonwood and box elder and hackberry, and intricate wild-haired tapestries of fern.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The mixed oak/hackberry woodlands found on the property’s chenier ridges are crucial resting/feeding stations for swarms of songbirds that pass through the area on spring and autumn migrations.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• To use three examples that are commonly hit by mistletoe, hackberry limbs are more vulnerable than cedar elms or bois d’arcs.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• More Information Now is a good time to prune hackberry, mulberry and other unwanted seedlings out of your landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• Species available for planting include ironwood, hackberry, American linden, red and swamp oak and the Kentucky coffee tree.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 23 May 2018
• Some of these species include willow, Arizona ash, hackberry, poplar, pecan, Siberian elm, Bradford pear, mature water oaks (a species known for blowing over in hurricanes) and silver maple.
  — NOLA.com, 1 July 2017
• Some of these organisms are specialized to trigger a particular form of gall on one kind of plant: Maples get maple bladder gall, roses get mossy rose gall, and a hackberry tree typically has galls on most of its leaves.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• Visitors can spot songbirds in oak-hackberry woods, shorebirds and waders on beaches and in the marshes and raptors overhead, festival organizers say.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• For controlling hackberry and other undesirable seedlings, use Cut Vine and Stump Killer to eliminate the unwanted suckers.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Surrounded by acres of scrub, cactus and spotty stands of junipers, Little Hackberry Wash feeds a slender green corridor of lush mesquite, hackberry and desert willows, many entwined in morning glory and scarlet creeper vines.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• Vigorous, even invasive native Texas trees known as hackberries.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Leaf drop: There are several environmentally appropriate strategies to deal with the leaves from your oaks, sycamores, pecans, hackberries and other deciduous trees.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Perhaps pruning out mulberry, Chinaberry and hackberry also reduced the usual available rubbing trunks?
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024