How to Use Spanish moss in a Sentence

Spanish moss

noun

• Then, of course, there are the town squares draped in Spanish moss.
  — Rose Marie Walano, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2023
• Tendrils of Spanish moss tremble in the breeze, and the sand is soft beneath our feet.
  — Kiley Bense, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Take a ball of green Spanish moss in your hands and hollow out an opening with your thumbs.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
• Here, a wintery scene is set with moody Spanish moss and a roaring fire.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Feb. 2023
• It's filled it out with English ivy, which also grows in the backyard, plus Spanish moss. 5.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• In central Florida, there’s a place where live oak trees meet the blue sky and Spanish moss drips from each limb.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• The canopy of cypress trees creates a shaded world where Spanish moss, ferns and orchids thrive.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• My two-hour ride also stopped under Spanish moss, amid coastal scrub and along the boundary of a mangrove swamp.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• There’s a wealth of kudzu, potato vines, tree branches dripping with Spanish moss.
  — Kristen Arnett, Time, 15 Oct. 2022
• Wisps of Spanish moss, dangling vines and the nearby Windsor Ruins, an immense mansion burned in 1890, evoke a lost world.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Cover foam with Spanish moss, and finish with grapevine accents. Decorate the dining room with this easy-as-pie craft.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Other more expensive media, such as peat moss or Spanish moss, can be used.
  — Mike Harrelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• There are more than 600 different Tillandsia plants, and the most common is Spanish moss, which is neither Spanish nor moss.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• The swampy surrounds are full of otherworldly cypress trees dripping in Spanish moss and are a fun (and spooky) place to paddle, kayak or take a bayou tour.
  — Rebecca Treon, Chron, 11 Mar. 2022
• From the oldest Black church in North America to historic squares shaded by oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, there's so much to explore.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 26 Jan. 2024
• Thousands of music lovers descend upon the park to camp out beneath ancient live oak trees covered in Spanish moss.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• In addition to cardboard inserts that kept the pot and matching tray in place, a coco fiber mat and a layer of Spanish moss held soil in its container.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2023
• Established in 1938, the green space overlooks Lake Maitland and features towering oak trees with dangling Spanish moss that sways with the breeze.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Paddle through the bottomlands and between bald cypress trees covered in Spanish moss over Big Cypress Bayou, or weave through one of the paddling trails across the lake.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
• Angel Oak The surrounding Lowcountry, filled with live oak trees and Spanish moss, is just as picturesque as the historic homes downtown.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2023
• The two strike up an easy friendship: Every evening, Leanne throws a paper plane into Bayou’s window and the two meet under an oak tree with drooping Spanish moss.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• Trees weighed down by fruit or epiphytes such as ball moss or Spanish moss, like many Sugar Land trees, are also susceptible.
  — Juhi Varma, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
• Seminole bat Lasiurus seminolus This reddish-brown bat likes to roost in clumps of Spanish moss that thrive on live oak branches.
  — Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• This Georgia barrier island will instantly get you in the spirit with its canopied oak trees dripping with Spanish moss and Christmas lights.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• Several benches provide a place to sit and read a book, have a picnic and observe textures found in the land: Spanish moss swaying in the breeze, the wrinkles of bark, plus moss and ferns growing on outstretched branches.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• The picturesque plot is accessed via a quarter-mile-long driveway lined with towering exotic trees, Spanish moss, and hundreds of orchids.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
• Location features such as a Georgia beach with huge sculptural tangles of driftwood or trees draped in Spanish moss are beautiful.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• In fact, some of the most popular plants known as moss are not actually mosses (Irish moss belongs to the carnation family; Spanish moss is a bromeliad).
  — Jenny Comita, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Savannah's postcard-worthy downtown area, complete with centuries-old oak trees draped in Spanish moss, is surely a thing of beauty.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2023
• Tree tunnels dripping with Spanish moss are everywhere, while pockets of saltwater marshes thrive in the distance.
  — Essence, 22 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024