How to Use jacaranda in a Sentence

jacaranda

noun

• The olive and jacaranda trees look as if they were trucked in from a nursery the week before.
  — Richard McGill Murphy, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
• At a live baseball game, a concert, the jacaranda trees in bloom.
  — Diana Wagman, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• One last plastic lawn chair remained open under the shade of a jacaranda tree, and the man in the next seat over nodded toward it.
  — Eric Barton, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• Bright blue jacaranda trees brighten the courtyards, and everywhere cleaners with mops attack the grime of the city.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa, 30 Dec. 2019
• The hues range from bright purple jacaranda trees and stunning hot pink city sunsets to gray concrete structures and dark city streets.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 15 June 2022
• The hue blended in with trees blooming with purplish jacaranda flowers.
  — Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• Out near La Brea, drizzle blows through jacaranda, a gardener hurries past a pool.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• The jacaranda tree produces foot-long clusters of blooms measuring about two inches apiece.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 27 June 2022
• Bougainvillea vines and jacaranda petals spill onto every street.
  — Anna Deutsch, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 May 2019
• Similar to the jacaranda, the tree also blooms with flowers — in its case, beautiful yellow ones.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• For whites, even in war, Rhodesia was caught in a time warp of country clubs and drinks at sunset on shaded terraces scented by bougainvillea and jacaranda.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• That property was filled with cypress, eucalyptus, palms, and jacaranda—and, along the way, was re-dubbed Balboa Park.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 May 2018
• Elsewhere in the country, city streets in Johannesburg are blooming with jacaranda trees.
  — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Jan. 2022
• Most local nurseries don’t stock jacaranda trees year round because of their frost tenderness.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 13 Oct. 2017
• Most of the jacarandas seen in L.A. are Jacaranda mimosifolia, one of the 49 different types of flowering jacaranda trees.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 May 2018
• Now my mother is making over the garden in rambling color, overwriting its history, once again, with olive trees, a fig, kitchen herbs, and a jacaranda.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• Opening next month, Hotel Corazón sits on 12 acres planted with ancient palm, jacaranda, olive and citrus trees; the property is also home to a working farm.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2023
• As hummingbirds dart among arbutus trees, the gardenias and carissa flowering beneath a jacaranda scent the air near the door.
  — Emily Young, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• The couple work in separate offices nearby but share Mills’s old house, a place where jacaranda roots poke through the driveway and Talking Heads albums are stacked beside a vintage turntable.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• People pausing to take photos of the plentiful jacaranda trees and their gorgeous purple blossoms.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
• Leave a Note Amid 32 acres of purple jacaranda and yellow gulmohar trees, this fort-style hotel recalls the days of the Rajputs, with architectural details like blue tile and brass doors.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Violet jacaranda trees and bougainvillea flowers of radiant pink and royal purple are in full bloom.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• The 5,200-square-foot plaza offers tables and chairs, including clusters of low, pod-style seats, along with shrubs such as rosemary and lantana and box trees including magnolia and jacaranda.
  — Bryce Alderton, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, 24 Oct. 2017
• Someone in Ajijic must have made a concerted effort to protect the town’s trees since the streets are lined with huge specimens, including palm trees mixed in with pines and flowering jacarandas.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
• Finding dead end streets, eating at random restaurants, observing the jacaranda trees loose their purple flowers.
  — Gael Couturier, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2019
• The existing trees in the riad’s courtyard garden were magnificent: jacarandas, figs, palms, flame trees and Persian silk trees approaching the height of the upper-story bedrooms.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• The curbside carrotwood, magnolia, jacaranda, liquid amber and podocarpus trees have not been stolen.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
• In Your Pocket, a popular events guide that runs an annual jacaranda photo competition.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2020
• Despite the jacaranda’s popularity, Carrie likes another tree better.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024