How to Use chokecherry in a Sentence

chokecherry

noun

• Most parts of the chokecherry shrub are toxic to humans and livestock.
  — Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• Like all the chokecherries in Alaska, this one has been imported to this spot.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
• But with a group of our size, bears could hear us from miles away, and there was no chance of surprising a grizzly in the midst of a chokecherry feast.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• The sweet aroma of simmering wojape, the Lakota chokecherry dish, time-warps me back to my 6-year-old self.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• The shelterbelt was a half-mile long and 50 yards wide, and there were cottonwoods, pine trees, elm and chokecherry bushes.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
• Classmates planted a chokecherry tree in memory of their friend.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
• Redbud and sweetgum, chokecherry and crabapple, hornbeam and plum.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• This time, it’s Roy Corral’s image of a single yellow aspen leaf among purple chokecherry leaves.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
• By the time Sherry got there for breakfast, which was every Sunday morning, the house smelled of fresh sourdough, pancakes browning in butter and hot chokecherry syrup.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• Fruiting cherries don’t like it here very much, but the escarpment black cherry and Canada red chokecherry are just terrific.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
• Some are barely edible, such as wild black cherry, whose wood makes wonderful lumber, and chokecherry.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• Part of the Parley Vue Rosé series, this not-too-sweet sipper has notes of strawberry, chokecherry, cranberry and watermelon rind.
  — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
• Also known as a chokecherry or Mayday tree, this is an invasive species that harms native wildlife and local vegetation.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Two unique trees that grow a little larger and like more sunlight include Canadian red chokecherry, Persian ironwood and paperbark maple.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
• To get the fall color of burning bush without the ecological destruction, go with chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) instead.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2021
• Instead, Wahpepah said she’s become known for her Indiginous teas, such as wild plum-chokecherry, hibiscus and elderberry sweetened with maple.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
• Mango and lime pickles are commonly sold in the United States, but nothing escapes pickling in India: plums and hog plums, cherries and chokecherries, sprouted fenugreek seeds, bamboo shoots, fat gooseberries, hibiscus flowers and green walnuts.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024