How to Use magnolia in a Sentence

magnolia

noun
  • After a reluctant tour, however, she was sold on the courtyard and its blooming magnolia tree.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2024
  • One of the magnolia buds is just, just, just about to bloom.
    Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Tulip magnolias are not one of the smartest plants in our garden.
    Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Taller plants and trees, like evergreen magnolias, are set against the height of the house.
    oregonlive.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • My magnolia has grown in size and has good foliage but few blooms.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
  • Plant this magnolia in late fall or early winter in the South.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
  • Their shape leads some people to name it tulip magnolia.
    Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 5 Mar. 2018
  • All agreed that there is not much to be done about some fall bloom, such as on flowering plums and magnolias.
    Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Three of the birds – a Nashville warbler and two magnolia warblers – were alive.
    Karin Brulliard, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
  • Three of the birds -- a Nashville warbler and two magnolia warblers -- were alive.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
  • Stephanie Boudreau and Chris Lesjak brought their daughter, Sophia, 3, to the nursery to get a pawpaw tree for the backyard and a magnolia for the side yard.
    Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The 356’s magnolia paint is pockmarked and patinated, while its oxblood-leather seat is creased and cracked with age.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The former waste dump is now a woodland walk anchored by a huge magnolia tree.
    Emily Hedrick, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One magnolia tree stands on its lawn, the tree’s pale, floppy blossoms beautiful and strange against the oaks and elms of the Northeast.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
  • The chalky white and gray of the stones was punctuated here and there with pink-blossoming trees and saucer magnolias.
    Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2020
  • This whole scenario took place in just about a minute, with only a few seconds under the magnolia tree.
    Dick Schmidt, sacbee, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The house was surrounded by fifty acres of woods: beech, oak, chestnut, magnolia.
    Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • But while the Coast is booming, the casinos along the Mississippi River in the magnolia state didn't fare so well.
    Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018
  • Things get done here at a slower pace, in the luxurious shade of magnolia trees.
    Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Saucer magnolia has other features that set it apart from most trees.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • Separate half the magnolia branches and paint them with two coats of metallic gold spray paint.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Moroney may or may not qualify as a steel magnolia, but speaking of, there’s a hell of a lot of steel on this album.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 14 July 2024
  • Katie Luck was sitting in her yard under a magnolia tree one afternoon in April when a school bus passed by.
    Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
  • First, of course, a pool, but this one has a spa, several fountains, a spacious gazebo and a ring of magnolia trees that is sort of in the shape of heart when viewed from above.
    Katharine Jose, Chron, 9 Apr. 2023
  • However, the most legendary trees on the property are the magnolias lining the driveway to the entrance.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Saucer magnolias have grown large, and consequently, the lawn shrank.
    Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • My windows opened onto a back garden with lemon and magnolia trees.
    Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Your best bet will be to turn to upright shrubs or small trees such as Oakland hollies or Teddy Bear magnolias.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 July 2019
  • Some townspeople felt bad and brought him a bouquet of magnolias in the hospital.
    Cian Maher, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In Milwaukee, the herald of winter’s thaw is not that growing patch of green on a lawn or the first magnolia blossom peeling open or that last crusty pile of parking lot snow.
    Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024

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