How to Use tamarisk in a Sentence

tamarisk

noun

• Tree stumps and old fence posts rise amid the creosote and waist-high tamarisk.
  — Anne Burke, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• The beetles would not be in the United States if not for the tamarisk that thrives along riverbeds.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Close to midday, the group emerged from the wash and walked up a dirt trail above the tamarisk and willow trees.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• Cottonwoods, tamarisk and willows along the banks were felled and plants were cleared.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• There are thousands of acres along the Gila of closely packed tamarisk.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• Dead tamarisks can litter the ground with leaves and increase wildfire risks.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• In one corner of the garden, the team came across a remarkable sight: a tamarisk shrub that stood upright, its roots and trunk still attached.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• In one corner of the garden, the team came across a remarkable sight: a tamarisk shrub that stood upright, its roots and trunk still attached.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• Meanwhile invasive Russian olive and tamarisk trees have moved in beneath the canopy, all fire-prone species.
  — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
• Miles from civilization, they were hemmed in by thickets of willow and tamarisk along both banks of the river.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• Take a dip in the shallow waters, sunbathe under the tamarisk trees, and don't forget to buy a beer from the cafe — that donkey didn't come here for nothing.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• Its name comes from the tamarisk trees on the property, a flowering plant mentioned in the Old Testament and the Iliad.
  — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Levi Jamison nets and counts tamarisk beetles in New Mexico.
  — Katherine Mast, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• Salt cedar, or tamarisk, grows rapidly from seedlings and is difficult to eradicate.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• Without native trees, flycatchers were left to seek new nesting sites in tamarisks.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Invasive species like tamarisk trees and phragmites, a reed that chokes out native water plants, have been rooted out.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• The federal government released tamarisk beetles, which are native to Asia, in Utah in the early 2000s as a way to control salt cedars there.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2020
• Shady Fremont cottonwoods, the dominant tree along the Salt River, fanned through the new water system, along with willows and tamarisk.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Fed by spring water — unusual for the Salton Sea — these areas are now home to small shorebirds who flit about pools of water amid grasses and invasive tamarisk.
  — Henry Fountain Mette Lampcov, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• In five states, including New Mexico and Texas, tamarisk is considered a noxious weed.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• Western states have spent a fortune trying to eradicate the tamarisk tree, which many experts believe hogs more than its share of water and damages the habitat of native species.
  — Erica Goode, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2016
• Six years ago, workers removed invasive tamarisk trees at the site and planted a forest of native cottonwoods, willows and mesquites.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• The crews then carry the buckets a quarter-mile upstream by hand, following a path feral burros have forged through thickets of tamarisk in an area that Lake Powell once covered.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• The houses alongside a golf course in the small subdivision would usually be prime real estate, but at some point in the early 1960s, a large row of shaggy tamarisk trees was built to divide the houses from the golf course.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
• While clearly a twist on monuments that preside over public squares, the figure was smartly placed near a shady grove of tamarisk trees on a sandy trail in Desert Hot Springs, where an actual horse and rider might seek shelter.
  — Jori Finkel, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Many of the plants are invasive, such as tamarisk and Russian thistle, but there are plenty of native willows coming back, along with 2-foot-high cottonwood seedlings, that will soon provide crucial habitat for songbirds.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
• Invasive tamarisk trees sprang up in thickets, forming a nonnative forest that spread aggressively.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2021
• The family also has made on-site environmental improvements to their ranch, including installing rainwater catchment systems and removing invasive tamarisk plants from the stream that runs across their land.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
• All of them talking acre-feet and reclamation guidelines and cooperation, wastewater efficiency, recycling, water banking, evaporation reduction and river covers, tamarisk and cottonwood and willow elimination.
  — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015

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