How to Use yew in a Sentence

yew

noun

• But the ancient yew tree may not be around much longer.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
• The kitchen faces the glass atrium, which on cool days can be opened up to a side yard shaded with a large yew tree.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• Robin Hood of English legend was armed with a stout yew bow.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• Learn how waste becomes grower’s gold Want to get rid of the toxic yew in your yard?
  — Joe Jaszewski, idahostatesman, 17 Mar. 2017
• The crow is on a branch of the yew tree, cocking its head and holding something on one side of its beak, as if to peer at it with the left eye.
  — Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• It is thought that the yew was used to create longbows for his royal archers in the lead-up to the Battle of Bannockburn.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
• The church tower came into view and Mr. O’Shea turned in to a churchyard bordered by cypress and yew trees.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The mood is not for cubes of boxwood and precision-cut yew, but a wilder shagginess.
  — Kendra Wilson, Vogue, 21 May 2019
• Guests at Dromoland receive a map of the gardens upon check-in, and should not miss the dramatic yew tree gallery, which dates back to 1740.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• The roughly 1,900-square-foot terrace has a pergola off the study and is landscaped with a border of boxwood and yew and beech trees.
  — E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• The cherry laurels look great, but the Japanese yews are struggling.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Stop by the Bog Garden, where a trio of 600-year-old yew trees sits alongside a gently trickling waterfall.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a playground, a yew maze, Rose Garden, and topiary chess set.
  — Ellen Scolnic, Philly.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• For other areas, there are spreading forms of the Japanese yew and junipers.
  — Dick Crum, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
• The plants included shrubs and birch trees that still live in Greenland today, but also poplar, spruce and yew trees that are only found further south.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
• Natchez’ crepe myrtle and cedar tree in the center bed, adding a Japanese maple for screening and shade as well as low-lying spreading yews, lavender phlox, and lamb’s ears.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2020
• While bushwhacking through hellish yew thickets, the sling kept twisting and finally unscrewed the swivel stud.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2020
• However, the best-selling cancer drug of all time, Taxol, is a natural product made from yew tree extract.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• For instance, deer will generally eat yews and arborvitae, and leave boxwood alone.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Intermixed were added English yew trees, cedars, and stands of California coast redwoods.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2017
• Its yew trees, themselves a replacement for the original hornbeam, are threadbare in places where eager visitors have brushed up against them.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Thanks to her German origin, Victoria's mother had brought in yew trees for the holidays, but Victoria and Albert really made the trend catch on in 1848.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 2 Dec. 2019
• The best woods include osage, Oregon yew, white ash, Southern red cedar, black walnut, black locust, apple, and mulberry.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Tucked behind a yew hedge, this enchanting English-style rose garden is a beautiful and quiet oasis in bustling Boston.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
• Most of us picture formal estates dotted with giant animals shaped from boxwood or yew.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 12 May 2021
• Stroud has turned traditional conservation on its head by facilitating the fern’s canopy survival hack in the cape yew trees.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2017
• And another link to a University of Maryland website showing that Hick’s yew is not deer resistant.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
• Ample gardens, designed first by Poitiers, and then de Medici, feature box hedges, diagonal paths, flower beds, urns, fountains and yew trees.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• To commemorate the sergeant’s visit, Stroud has invited him to plant a ceremonial tree to contribute to this effort of creating a large cape yew canopy, where the last endemic ferns might persist.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2017
• Lawns were divided by hedges of yew and rhododendron and paths bordered by brilliant flowers, specimen magnolias, cypresses and conifers.
  — Francine Prose, New York Times, 9 May 2017

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024