How to Use loquat in a Sentence

loquat

noun

• My new (to me) car is shiny, and the loquat tree is dumping fruit.
  — Heather Hacking, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
• The grounds were verdant: loquat trees with ripe yellow fruits, tall arid pines, low palms, cypress.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• The street, whose parkways are dotted with loquat trees, is a few blocks from York Boulevard, one of Highland Park’s main drags.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Forage for prickly pear and loquats with herbalist Doreen Williams James.
  — Caitlin Etherton, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• About four of the six acres remain leafy and laden with mangoes, loquats and South American guama trees, whose beans taste like ice cream.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• This one is made with loquat (a Japanese plum), which helps to keep bacteria from getting cozy on your face.
  — Maya McDowell, Seventeen, 21 May 2019
• With a low fog hanging just above the loquat trees, Norfolk pine and lush ferns, the property seemed vaguely mystical, like a scene from Tolkien.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 26 May 2018
• Large yellow jackfruit grow like Chinese lanterns among loquat and clove trees, pepper vines and coffee plants.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• There are 20-foot orange and lemon trees, even taller fig, loquat, guama and avocado trees.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• The loquats, tangerines, oranges, and pomegranates grown in common areas and outside the fence are available to visitors, too.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 26 Feb. 2018
• The Gouveias’ backyard is shaded by apple, pear, and loquat trees planted decades ago by Arnaldo himself.
  — Cátia Bruno, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• In another village, Tanghuang, people pointed to chestnut trees that no longer bore fruit and loquat trees and squash vines that turned yellow during summer rainstorms.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2019
• Capofaro, its sharpest hotel, with new suites, sits in an organic arcadia of wildflowers, vines, and herbs, all used in-house (highlights: the Ragusano cheese, the homegrown loquats).
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• The loquat is an immigrant originally from China but spread to many other communities that embraced the fruit as their own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• There’ll be a Q&A too, where Watts will discuss her local inspiration, such as how native plants sustain biodiversity, and a raffle for 10 ready-to-plant baby loquat trees.
  — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• Jamal supplemented the surviving orange and lemon trees with replacements and new types of citrus, including an Algerian tangerine, different orange trees, a pomelo, grapefruit and loquat.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024