How to Use sapwood in a Sentence

sapwood

noun

• These girdling roots cause compression of the stem and sapwood.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The evaluation assesses the tree’s vigor, the thickness of its sapwood shell, its disease stresses, the state of the roots and the like.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 17 Jan. 2018
• This can also occur when trees are planted too deep, as adventitious (growing sideways from the stem) roots grow against the stem and squeeze the sapwood.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The construction-common and deck-common grades of redwood decking are both streaked with sapwood and contain knots.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2020
• There are also grades available containing some sapwood, which will be a bit cheaper.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2021
• The sapwood’s structure already performs a filtering action in the living wood, screening out air bubbles from the tree sap.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• If the swing is true, there will resonate from the tree — through still-growing sapwood to the compressed cells of the dying core — a deeply satisfying, percussive boom, scattering birds and startling deer.
  — Jonny Diamond, Longreads, 8 June 2019
• Researchers have successfully used a 1-cubic-inch block of pine sapwood as a water filter.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• First, the woodpeckers drill through the resinous sapwood, stopping occasionally to let the sap build up on the exterior, which forms a protective plate around the two-to-three-inch-wide entry hole.
  — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
• The discoloration extends into the tissue as far as the sapwood, which contains the functioning vascular tissue.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2022
• Entering tree branches through wounds caused by any number of actions, the Hypoxylon fungus grows into sapwood, where decay begins.
  — Sallie Lee, AL.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• The RegisTree—a knotty trunk with a computer, camera, and printer embedded in its sapwood—presented me with options: aqua, digi, mycoverse, bee, seedling.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Use a water repellent on all exterior redwood, especially for sapwood-containing grades.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024