How to Use linden in a Sentence

linden

noun

• A linden tree belongs on a farm, not a small city plot.
  — Seattle Times Readers, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2017
• The first of the islands, dubbed CPH-Ø1, looks a bit like a floating, 215 square-foot dock with a real, growing linden tree in the middle.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2020
• Trees such as sycamores and lindens that grow large and sprout readily after pruning work best.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• The blocky, rustic figure was cut from the trunk of a living linden tree - whose base forms a tall plinth - in a field beside the Sava River in the village of Rozno, five miles from Sevnica.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2019
• The blocky, rustic figure was cut from the trunk of a living linden tree – whose base forms a tall plinth – in a field beside the Sava River in the village of Rozno, five miles from Sevnica.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
• During spring, Cote says, the vintage will most likely be light in color and heavily loaded with linden due to the high density of such trees in the city.
  — Charu Suri, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• More broadleaved trees such as oak and linden began to fill in, but hazel remained important as farming began in the Neolithic era around 4,000 BCE.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• These iridescent, fingernail-sized bugs feast on roses and certain tree species like birch and linden.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
• These beetles can cause a grade deal of damage to linden and crabapple trees, fruit-bearing trees and grapevines, along with other foliate flora.
  — USA TODAY, 26 July 2019
• There were small houses—possibly the homes of former laborers at the defunct talc mine nearby—but no sign of life, except for the crows pecking along the street and around the trunk of a sagging linden.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Earlier this month, an artistic tribute to her—carved with a chainsaw from a living linden tree—was revealed near her hometown, Sevnic.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 21 July 2019
• Standing under an old linden tree, Sister Brigitte looks at the marble gravestones marking the resting spots of her late companions.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• Shorter trees, like dogwoods, shadblows and lindens, are better suited to grow alongside power lines, Pitz said.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• My lindens, birches and other JB favorites remain intact as well.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2019
• The allees have been replanted with 168 native little-leaf linden trees, variety Greenspire, which will be clipped into an aerial hedge.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
• The $85 ticket includes seating under the linden trees, continental breakfast and a picnic lunch.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
• The neighborhood of Fatih, with its beautiful 15th-century Ottoman mosque of low domes and pointed minarets sheathed in bluish lead, and its delicate linden and plane trees, had turned into a little Syria.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• 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
• St. Paul began planting a wider variety of trees in response to the destruction of elms, choosing trees like linden, honey locust, hackberry, Norway maple and ash.
  — Andy Rathbun, Twin Cities, 29 May 2017
• American linden trees can grow up to 2 feet in a year and produce plenty of nectar that's especially attractive to honeybees.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2020
• Mulberry, sour cherry, black walnut, aronia, linden, black cap raspberry each have their turn to be ripe, all gleaned from parking lots, a little public landscaping, sometimes through a chain-link fence.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• The beautiful gold tin includes 12 sachets of organic, non-caffeinated chamomile tea with hints of linden blossom, passionflower and jujube seed, that combine to make a stress-busting blend.
  — Sarah Rose, wsj.com, 2 Nov. 2023
• To hold it all together, a linden framework with sophisticated metal pivots for tightening was affixed to the back of each painting, to prevent warping.
  — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• To hold it all together, a linden framework with sophisticated metal pivots for tightening was affixed to the back of each painting, to prevent warping.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• The shortlist includes roses, silver lace vines, Virginia creeper, raspberry, linden, gaura, rose of Sharon and hollyhock.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
• Berlin has its lindens, California its giant redwoods—and Washington, D.C., its cherry trees.
  — Dominique Browning, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Japanese beetle adults feed on more than 300 plant varieties, with a preference for plants like linden, elm, rose, raspberry, grape, viburnum, zinnia and Japanese maple.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
• While wandering through the woods, take advantage of the free dendrology lessons: Informative signs detail the characteristics of the surrounding linden, beech, maple and oak trees.
  — Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Adult beetles feed on about 300 different species of ornamental plants, but especially favor roses, grapevines, and crabapple, cherry and linden trees.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
• In the past, blooming linden trees were routinely treated in springtime with a pesticide called imidacloprid to kill Japanese beetles.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024