How to Use canker in a Sentence

canker

noun

• Sometimes the canker is an area of swollen bark, and some cankers bleed sap.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
• There can be orange and red flecks on the tree outside the areas killed by the canker.
  — oregonlive, 13 June 2021
• Dieback results from a canker somewhere along the stem.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
• Their bark is so thin, hail can cause scarring and cankers can form.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 28 Apr. 2018
• Please read more about incense-cedar branch canker and what to do about it at this link.
  — oregonlive.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• Even the experts are puzzled about the causes of cane canker.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• The cankers are generally found at the tips of branches but can spread down the stem to affect more of the plant.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The mainstay of apple canker control is pruning out the cankers.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2022
• Cold-injury symptoms may look like, or lead to the development of, cankers and diebacks.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• To control, plant resistant trees and cut out branches or trees with cankers.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• Rather, the canker at the center of the anti-Biden campaign appears to be a crooked Ukrainian oligarch named Dmytro Firtash.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2019
• Then small patches of polyp tissue started to die, like spreading canker sores.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Citrus canker, spread by wind and rain, discolors fruit and weakens trees.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 June 2017
• The canker was very severe in Texas oak populations following the drought of 2011.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Sources of this disease can include old cankers, healthy buds, leaf surfaces and nearby weeds and grasses.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
• The cankers are circular, discolored areas on the bark.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• The disease often infects branches on sycamores, causing girdling cankers and dieback.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• On sycamores, the disease often infects branches, causing girdling cankers and dieback.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• To avoid spreading diseases such as dogwood canker, take care to disinfect your pruners.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• A couple of things to watch for are oozing sap blisters indicating a canker, which is common in this area.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Bacterial canker is the main threat to the tree’s survival, as infected trees may only last 10 years.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• But the problems weren’t gone, and Florida saw some overlap with canker when greening first discovered in the Sunshine State in 2005.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• The post also claims the rinsing will prevent canker sores, but Cooper said there is no data to suggest that is accurate.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
• Scout cherry trees for signs and symptoms of bacterial canker.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2022
• When entire lower branches on a spruce have died, the problem is more likely to be cytospora canker, Yiesla said.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• The move came after potato wart, an unsightly canker that poses no threat to human health, was detected in two fields.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
• State officials acknowledged that some of that land, which has been ravaged by canker, a plant disease, is useless for restoration.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2010
• Any trees that are affected year after year or develop cankers will be weakened.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• Purple-leafed plums only live five to six years before peach tree borers and bacterial stem canker invade and kill them.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018
• Remove cankered limbs from fruit and nut trees for control of diseases such as apple anthracnose and bacterial canker of stone fruit.
  — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024