How to Use main stem in a Sentence

main stem

noun

• These are flightless insects that must crawl up the main stem or trunk of the plant to reach the leaves.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 6 Oct. 2017
• Prune plants to remove leaves on the lower 6 to 12 inches of the main stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2022
• Leave main stem intact and make sure not to cut through any of the florets.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 30 Nov. 2018
• Cut back to where the flower stem meets the main stem of the plant so unsightly stubs aren’t left.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
• Prune one branch or stem at a time, down to the ground or to a place where a branch is connected to a main stem.
  — chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2022
• Prune the top to be 2.5 times as large as the container and keep it at that size by tipping back the main stems.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
• As a young pear tree grows, the main stem of the plant should always be taller than the surrounding branches.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2022
• Use a potato fork or shovel to loosen soil all around the clump, working at least 1 foot away from the main stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2022
• To establish plantings, be sure to drip irrigate the root ball margin and out from there, not at the base of the main stem.
  — Lynlee Austell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
• Harvest the entire crop at the first sign of bolting by using a sharp knife to cut through the main stem just below the soil surface.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2018
• The improved nutrients from the wetlands will help provide food for salmon in the river's main stem.
  — Edward Stratton, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2018
• The neighborhood’s other main stem was Howard between Third and Fourth.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• At one time there were more than 27 dams along Roaring Brook and its tributaries, including eight large dams along the main stem of the brook.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Tomatoes, unlike most plants, can produce roots along their main stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
• Suckers grow in the intersection between the main stem and main leaf branches.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2022
• The department says sea lamprey spawn each spring in the main stem of the Connecticut River and in many tributaries.
  — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Flood warnings are up all along the Potomac, including both the main stem (above the District) and the tidal portion (including the District).
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• Each site will have a main stem site for data collection and progress to be monitored, Bower said.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2020
• Cuttings are either taken from the mother plant or, if a plant is old or root bound, can be taken by cutting the head off the main stem and starting over.
  — Leslie Crawford, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Most architecture tours sail through the main stem of the Chicago River as well as venturing into the North and South branches.
  — Hailey Mensik, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• One of the biggest changes is that there’s a tremendous amount of sediment that flows down the river every year that has dropped out in tributary canyons in the main stem of the Colorado River.
  — Bethany Baker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• But what really did it in, the scientists conclude, were dams—specifically the Gezhouba Dam, built on the main stem of the Yangtze, a little over a thousand miles from the sea.
  — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2020
• Hernandez said there was no time frame for removing the drydock debris from the main stem of the channel, which is key to moving crude oil to refineries.
  — Libby George, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2017
• Last year, amid record rainfall across the Mid-Atlantic, the fish turned up in places where waters were usually thought to be too salty for their liking, including near the mouths of rivers and in the main stem of the Chesapeake.
  — Christina Tkacik, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• Occasionally, the plants will produce fast-growing water shoots, which are branches that grow off the main stem.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2023
• Last year, amid record rainfall across the Mid-Atlantic, the fish turned up in places where waters were usually thought to be too salty for their liking, including near the mouths of rivers and in the main stem of the Chesapeake itself.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
• Where normal bird feathers have single spines that lay in the same plane as the main stem, the birds of paradise had feathers that branched into numerous tiny barbules that curved up and toward the feathers' tips.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
• This year prune out several selected taller branches by following them to a growth point – a main stem – then removing them.
  — oregonlive.com, 29 June 2019
• But now the streets, particularly Market Street — the city’s main stem — are clogged with what appear to be truly mad people, talking to themselves, shouting.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Because of levees built to contain its flow, the Rio Grande now courses mostly through a narrow channel, rather than expanding broadly across the landscape, which disconnects the main stem from its many side channels.
  — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024