How to Use wormwood in a Sentence

wormwood

noun

• But that was based on the assumption that all of the thujone in the wormwood ended up in the drink prepared from it.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2010
• The yeast eats sugar and, using the genetic code from the wormwood as a blueprint, spits out artemisinic acid, a precursor to the drug.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
• Berg and Proctor's final recipe includes the wormwood that's essential to vermouth and a half-dozen or so other herbs and such.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2022
• Named after the wormwood herb that grew wild there, the town had a modest population, a river that ran clear, and open land for camping and star-gazing.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2019
• Back then, absinthe was a simpler recipe, consisting of just wine infused with wormwood.
  — John Debary, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2021
• In Europe, vermouths generally start with wormwood, an aromatic plant from which the word vermouth is said to have evolved.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• And anyone can make their own botanical blend, sprinkling in citrus notes or spicy notes or notes straight out of a Hogwarts potions class (hello, wormwood).
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• But wormwood is a term that also invokes bitterness, and is mentioned in two notably gloomy texts: Hamlet and the Book of Revelation.
  — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 13 Dec. 2017
• Snowball Old-Fashioned: Caramelized pecan bourbon, spiced molasses syrup and wormwood bitters.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• The wormwood and also other plants used are considered good for digestion and stimulate the appetite.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Artemisinin is derived from sweet wormwood, a plant used in traditional Chinese remedies.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• It’s now known that wormwood, or at least some varieties of it, contains thujone, which can indeed cause seizures, and death, due to being a GABA antagonist.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2010
• In the new report, the biomedical engineers successfully stripped plant cells from parsley, peanut hairy roots and a species of wormwood in addition to spinach.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2017
• One way for producers to adapt is to derive their products into Western chemical forms, like Tu Youyou did with sweet wormwood.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• The new procedure refines a method developed in 2012 at the Max Planck Institute to use the waste product from the production of artemisinin, which is extracted from a plant known as sweet wormwood, to produce the drug itself.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Long before two Swiss sisters made the world’s first batch, in the late 1700s, the herb from which absinthe came—wormwood—had been used to ease childbirth, alleviate rheumatism, and fumigate plague-ridden houses.
  — Sasha Ingber, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• The spirit is distilled from Kansas wheat and steeped with grand and Roman wormwood, fennel, star anise, hyssop, spearmint, peppermint, melissa leaf (lemon balm), chamomile and hibiscus.
  — Anne Brockhoff, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• Trudi’s 27-year-old daughter, Olivia, and their Weimaraner dogs, Luna and Hershey, accompany us on a ride through the high desert of cactus, mesquite, aromatic wormwood and desert lavender.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• A tiny card features suggestions for how to tackle the ingredients, from wormwood to vodka infused with galangal, a plant in the ginger family.
  — Nicole Schnitzler, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, a plant that belongs to the daisy family and whose extract is a standard treatment for malaria, is gathering attention among African politicians and some...
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 12 May 2020
• Absinthe is prepared by crushing and dissolving the herb wormwood in unflavoured neutral alcohol and then distilling the result; other herbs and spices are added later for taste and colour.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2010
• Malört, the Swedish word for wormwood, is the ingredient that gives the spirit its notoriously unsavory flavor.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2023
• Sanders also ponders the question of why gardeners are continually beseeched by websites to use lava rocks, wormwood tea, and quackgrass cakes to repel slugs when a simple dose of iron phosphate will do the job quickly and safely.
  — Steve Smith, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Consider lamb’s ears (Stachys byzantina), catnips (Nepeta), santolina and wormwood (Artemisia).
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 10 Mar. 2017
• Absinthe contains three key ingredients: wormwood, anise, and fennel.
  — John Debary, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2021
• Tu, who studied traditional Chinese and herbal medicines, found a reference in ancient medical texts to using sweet wormwood to treat intermittent fevers -- a symptom of malaria.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
• Although there are different thoughts on who actually invented absinthe, according to one story it's believed that the first person to use wormwood to make absinthe was a woman in Switzerland by the name of Madame Henriod.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021
• Tollius created this vermouth using a Niagara grape juice base and infusing it with botanicals like wormwood, angelica root, and gentian for a full 24 hours.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
• While wormwood has been researched5 for its possible antiparasitic effects in animals, a recent study6 looking at its efficacy in treating a type of flatworm infection in humans was later retracted.
  — Casey Gueren, SELF, 19 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024