How to Use foxtail in a Sentence

foxtail

noun

• Don was there the first time Vladimir treed his first foxtail in the backyard.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Dec. 2020
• My dog runs out in front with his nose to the ground, trying to tree a foxtail or gray.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 12 Jan. 2021
• The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Keep the foxtails out, avoid them on walks, and invest in a special hood that protects your dog’s head and face.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Beds close to the house are layered with foxtail ferns, autumn ferns and gingers.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The fox tricks the barnyard animals in the foxtail version.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Bags were also replete with foxtails, and slung across the body or under the shoulder.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
• My older son marveled at the new terrain: oak trees draped in Spanish moss, camelia and foxtail ferns, the ground alive with lizards and crabs.
  — William Torrey, Longreads, 5 May 2022
• Look for small branches resembling foxtails, and dark green needles in clusters of five.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• For outdoors, hedera English ivy and foxtail fern work well in low light, while most sedums and asparagus fern need brighter light.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• Another peril is foxtails, a spiky grass with barbed seeds that can burrow into fur.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2019
• Deck pointed at wild cucumber, water hemp and foxtail — all weeds.
  — Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
• Unlike the replicas on sale now, however, Newton’s had what appeared to be mini foxtails attached to the heels.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 10 May 2017
• In addition to balms and salves that can help your four-legged friend, there is also a product that can help protect your dog from foxtails embedding in their ears, eyes and nose.
  — Nicole Forsyth, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• Those who attended the garden tour got to see Domanski-Miville’s foxtail lilies in bloom — tall, odd wands of sulfur yellow.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
• Once we were finished, each of us would take home the equivalent of one quarter of a 335-pound side, which had come from an animal that had spent its life in a pasture feasting on foxtail and fescue.
  — Vogue, 21 June 2018
• His compositions might consist of a single branch with a cluster of moss green dwarf chestnuts, or loose stems of pale water lilies or a spray of feathery foxtail barley.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Under foxtail palms, our table groaned with roasted-pumpkin gnocchi, Moroccan lamb, ceviche of squid fished from the balmy waters far below.
  — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2022
• Ray Caranci, landscape planner for West Palm Beach, said a previous beautification project downtown put in the foxtail palms because the design couldn’t accommodate canopy trees.
  — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Those who do are rewarded with a meticulous composition rendering everything from oregano to hydrangeas to foxtail and clematis.
  — Alex Ronan, Vogue, 27 July 2018
• Among the virtual rainbow of plants are foxtail agave, sea lavender, society garlic, blue chalksticks, lantana, Texas sundrop, paddle plants, butterfly bush, cape plumbago, agapanthus and a small bougainvillea bush.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
• That treatment will prevent germination of annual bluegrass (Poa annua), rescuegrass, foxtail and ryegrass.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 17 May 2018

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024