How to Use tupelo in a Sentence

tupelo

noun

• Try coasting among the tupelo trees, with trunks that stretch wide into the water, through Cedar Creek.
  — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2021
• And God was not waiting for artists among tupelo gum trees or brackish marsh or duckweed.
  — Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020
• The 163-mile pipeline project runs across the Atchafalaya River basin, which includes fragile cypress-tupelo swamps.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Read more: Wait, what are these Kentucky-type plants doing in this Florida cypress tupelo swamp?
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2020
• During the 1800s, the eastern edges of St. Bernard and Orleans parishes were covered with a forest of baldcypress and tupelo that lived in low-salinity swamps.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• Wait, what are these Kentucky-type plants doing in this Florida cypress tupelo swamp?
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2020
• Native cypress and tupelo trees that once covered vast acreages across the Southeast, that can grow in most of the eastern half of North America — here’s a natural remnant right here in the middle of my race.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2020
• But Tonsmeire spots plants that tolerate salt water too far upstream, and remembers the loss of tupelo trees.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• There are no cypress-tupelo swamp mitigation banks available to offset the functions that would be damaged by the pipeline construction.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Snyder noted that trees planted so far include dawn redwood, sugar maple, horse chestnut, redbud, crabapple and tupelo.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 May 2020
• Other trees to rival maples with riotous hues of red, orange and yellow simultaneously are the tupelo and Persian ironwood.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
• The Apalachicola River of North Florida in healthier times plunged deeply into tupelo forests, where the flooding waters brewed into an organic energy drink for a web of life that included a bay acclaimed for oysters.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• That includes freshwater wetlands, cypress and tupelo swamps and other types of natural resource restoration.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Nurseries donated other plants, including 58 tupelo trees, each one representing a person lost in the attack.
  — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2017
• Although Florida also produces honey from orange blossoms, gallberries and wildflowers, the honey from white tupelo gum trees ranks highest in price and flavor.
  — Jennifer Kay, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024