How to Use rubber tree in a Sentence

rubber tree

noun

• The best plant for this style is a large-scale rubber tree plant in a large handmade pot.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
• Native to the jungles of India and Malaysia, the rubber tree can top out at 6 to 10 feet tall indoors.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 18 Apr. 2023
• If a small indoor tree for feng shui is on your radar, the rubber tree plant's thick, glossy leaves and purple stripes may fit the bill.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 6 Sep. 2022
• Although the rubber tree is carefully cut and tapped, the guayule is chopped to the ground and its branches mashed up to extract the latex.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• The sticker shock that Brown saw at Tire Town started more than two years earlier in a stand of rubber trees.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• Johnson visited the settlement to see for himself the rubber tree that put Malaysia on the map.
  — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Latex is the milky white fluid produced by the rubber tree, and it can be harvested without killing the tree.
  — Starre Vartan, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
• Previous leafy finds from the Amazon led to the discovery of the rubber tree and the cinchona tree, which is used to make the malaria drug quinine.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
• With thick, dark-green leaves, the rubber tree can grow into a tall, beautiful statement piece.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• Two years later, in 1959, Goodrich-Gulf published the rubber tree, as symbolic to this era as Hoffman’s tree had been in his time.
  — Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Latex foam is made from rubber tree sap, while memory foam is a type of polyurethane plastic.
  — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• The couple already had a son of their own living at their ranch-style house in a working class part of La Puente, with a papaya tree out front and a rubber tree in the back.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2024
• Window views show a Mississippi plantation on the right and a south Vietnamese rubber tree grove to the left.
  — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• And so her dining room is ornamented with trailing pothos, ZZ plants and a pink rubber tree.
  — Elizabeth G. Dunn, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Plus, it’s made from renewable rubber tree wood, and for every tree used to build this toy, another one is planted.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
• In the Indian state of Meghalaya, one of the wettest places on Earth, villagers weave the roots of living rubber trees into sturdy pedestrian bridges.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Amazon, relied on for centuries for rubber trees, minerals and fertile land, was the obvious place to go.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
• The customary equipment for the game was a hard rubber ball, and Castilla elastica rubber trees grow in the lowland coastal regions.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2020
• Natural latex is sustainable, made from the sap of rubber trees.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2023
• Like rubber trees, poinsettias exude a natural latex sap — a milky fluid that can seep out when parts of the plant are torn or broken.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Rubber Hot and dry weather is threatening many of Thailand’s rubber trees.
  — Randy Thanthong-Knight, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Four rubber trees tapped regularly for a year produce the 11 pounds of natural rubber found in the typical car tire.
  — Ted Evanoff, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• But a weeping ficus, or ficus benjamina, is not the same plant as ficus elastica, which is the rubber tree.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 10 Mar. 2021
• Put on your gardening gloves (this is especially important with plants that have sap, as some—like the kind from a rubber tree—can irritate your skin), and cut the plant's stem below the node.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 17 Feb. 2020
• Natural latex is harvested from mature rubber trees and then processed to form the plush latex found in pillows.
  — Emma Seymour, goodhousekeeping.com, 25 May 2023
• Their natural rubber comes from the milky sap of the hevea brasiliensis trees (or the Pará rubber tree), which can be ethically extracted without hurting the tree.
  — Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2023
• Latex Latex beds are made from materials derived from rubber trees and plants.
  — Shannon Ullman, SELF, 7 Aug. 2024
• The world produces about 2 billion tires each year, and while synthetic rubbers are used in modest amounts, most road tires use a lot of natural rubber from the para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis).
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• The area offers a pleasant walk among rubber trees and palm trees; friendly street cats and beautiful tropical birds; and stands where vendors display rustic goods and local crafts.
  — Alex Vros, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• The problem is caused by a lack of new rubber tree planting during 2020, and poor weather and tree-health conditions that are affecting current plantations in Southeast Asia.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 May 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024