How to Use ironwood in a Sentence

ironwood

noun

• Indonesian teak is used for Vela’s decking, ironwood for the hull, while the traditional twin masts are made from carbon.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
• The new junk is made of Southeast Asian ironwood and teak and cost about $1.3 million to build.
  — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017
• The peninsula is covered with ironwood trees and is roughly 1.25 miles from the road.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
• Shitakes need to be grown on a hardwood like oak, ironwood or sugar maple.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• Mesquite, paloverde and ironwood trees huddle at its base while raptors and vultures roost in its many nooks and shallow caves.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 19 Dec. 2019
• Keeping company with the ironwood trees are mesquite, paloverde, creosote and saguaro.
  — latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• By May, watch prickly pears sprout on the cacti and desert ironwood trees grow soft coatings of lavender flowers.
  — Alex Schechter, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
• By May, watch prickly pears sprout on the cacti and desert ironwood trees grow soft coatings of lavender flowers.
  — Alex Schechter, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
• Sathyamurthy offers a quick prayer at the temple, then leads me into a dense thicket of ironwood, ebony, and axlewood.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• The island’s ancient ironwood trees, of which there are only about 120 left, are also under threat.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Persian ironwood and paperbark maple are two sleepers that are hard to find in the garden centers but worth the effort.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
• Sprinkled with Saguaros, mesquites and ironwood trees, the course offers great rates year-round with plenty of natural desert beauty.
  — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 31 May 2018
• Head south and follow the dirt single track that traces the park’s southeast boundary through rumpled washes and lush stands of ironwoods and paloverde trees that clutter moist drainages.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
• Urban pointed out ironwood trees, white cedars and hemlocks.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2020
• That ironwood tree shading the cabin earned notoriety as the Hanging Tree.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• Thirty-four leafless evergreens surround much of the tennis courts, although there is an ironwood that does have leave at one corner.
  — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Between them were splinters of ironwood, a material used by the site’s inhabitants to pry abalone from slick rock outcrops.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• Catalina ironwood trees surround the firepit, along with native ferns and edibles like native strawberry and mint.
  — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 6 May 2022
• To get the different colors in this five-chopsticks set, each one is made from a different wood, including beechwood, rosewood and ironwood.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
• These include more than 250 varieties of species such as cedar of Lebanon (part of the park’s extensive cedar collection), Persian ironwood, and Oriental sweet gum.
  — Alyssa Giacobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• An ironwood tree, called kaasan in Tamil, is of particular medicinal value.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• Where aspens are scarce or absent, important winter foods include the buds and catkins of apple, alder, birch, black cottonwood, cherry, ironwood, willow, and cedar.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
• Leading a tour of the site, Alberto Ruiz of Pronatura Noroeste showed off a nursery where a worker with a hose was watering hundreds of tiny trees, including honey mesquites, ironwoods, and willows.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Two unique trees that grow a little larger and like more sunlight include Canadian red chokecherry, Persian ironwood and paperbark maple.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
• 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
• Kevin Hultine, plant physiologist at the Desert Botanical Garden, said saguaro seedlings require species such as mesquite, palo verde and ironwood trees to make it through those first critical decades.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 18 June 2020
• Scoured escarpments, jostled boulders and piles of twisted plants torn from the roots and smashed into heaps at the base of resilient ironwoods are evidence of the environment-shaping power of running water.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 15 Jan. 2020
• Esposito described trees as a natural cooling system, and native trees such as mesquite, ironwoods and palo verdes have the added benefit of being able to endure the Valley's harsh climate.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral, 12 Nov. 2019
• Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
• The walk around the foundation’s grounds will include information about planting, pruning, watering, pests and diseases of sycamore, Torrey pine, palo verde, Catalina ironwood and other native trees.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024