How to Use magnolia in a Sentence

magnolia

noun

• One of the magnolia buds is just, just, just about to bloom.
  — Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 15 Mar. 2020
• Tulip magnolias are not one of the smartest plants in our garden.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2023
• Taller plants and trees, like evergreen magnolias, are set against the height of the house.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• My magnolia has grown in size and has good foliage but few blooms.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
• Plant this magnolia in late fall or early winter in the South.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
• Their shape leads some people to name it tulip magnolia.
  — Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 5 Mar. 2018
• All agreed that there is not much to be done about some fall bloom, such as on flowering plums and magnolias.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• Three of the birds – a Nashville warbler and two magnolia warblers – were alive.
  — Karin Brulliard, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
• Three of the birds -- a Nashville warbler and two magnolia warblers -- were alive.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
• Stephanie Boudreau and Chris Lesjak brought their daughter, Sophia, 3, to the nursery to get a pawpaw tree for the backyard and a magnolia for the side yard.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The 356’s magnolia paint is pockmarked and patinated, while its oxblood-leather seat is creased and cracked with age.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• The former waste dump is now a woodland walk anchored by a huge magnolia tree.
  — Emily Hedrick, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• One magnolia tree stands on its lawn, the tree’s pale, floppy blossoms beautiful and strange against the oaks and elms of the Northeast.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• The chalky white and gray of the stones was punctuated here and there with pink-blossoming trees and saucer magnolias.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2020
• This whole scenario took place in just about a minute, with only a few seconds under the magnolia tree.
  — Dick Schmidt, sacbee, 5 Sep. 2017
• The house was surrounded by fifty acres of woods: beech, oak, chestnut, magnolia.
  — Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• But while the Coast is booming, the casinos along the Mississippi River in the magnolia state didn't fare so well.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018
• Things get done here at a slower pace, in the luxurious shade of magnolia trees.
  — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017
• Saucer magnolia has other features that set it apart from most trees.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• Separate half the magnolia branches and paint them with two coats of metallic gold spray paint.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
• Moroney may or may not qualify as a steel magnolia, but speaking of, there’s a hell of a lot of steel on this album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 14 July 2024
• Katie Luck was sitting in her yard under a magnolia tree one afternoon in April when a school bus passed by.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• First, of course, a pool, but this one has a spa, several fountains, a spacious gazebo and a ring of magnolia trees that is sort of in the shape of heart when viewed from above.
  — Katharine Jose, Chron, 9 Apr. 2023
• However, the most legendary trees on the property are the magnolias lining the driveway to the entrance.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2023
• Saucer magnolias have grown large, and consequently, the lawn shrank.
  — Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• My windows opened onto a back garden with lemon and magnolia trees.
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Your best bet will be to turn to upright shrubs or small trees such as Oakland hollies or Teddy Bear magnolias.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 July 2019
• Some townspeople felt bad and brought him a bouquet of magnolias in the hospital.
  — Cian Maher, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• After a reluctant tour, however, she was sold on the courtyard and its blooming magnolia tree.
  — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2024
• The shape, something like an elegantly twisted femur, debuted in sterling silver and terra-cotta two years later and then, in 1986, in magnolia wood.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024