How to Use poplar in a Sentence

poplar

noun

• For a while, Tabet had lived on the west side of the city, which was filled with tall sycamores, poplars and maples.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• The desk and bed, which are built-in, are made out of poplar with reclaimed redwood for the fronts and drawers.
  — Sally Kuchar, Sunset Magazine, 3 Aug. 2020
• Small balls of gray catkin fluff blew on the wind, seedpods from poplars, which bloom all over Warsaw in the spring.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The base of his Sryker was made of salvaged poplar from a house built in 1810 in Waynesville, Ohio.
  — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
• Living Carbon’s poplars start their lives in a lab in Hayward, Calif.
  — Gabriel Popkin Audra Melton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The breakfast is cooked on a broad Queen Atlantic cookstove fueled by oak and poplar.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 7 Apr. 2021
• Thanks to a poplar, paulownia, and bamboo backbone and triax and carbon glass job, the Greats is on the stiff side of the freestyle spectrum.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• Praise the infinite, nameless tellers of tales swaying from the poplar’s limbs.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• Praise the infinite, nameless tellers of tales swaying from the poplar’s limbs.
  — Michael Palmer, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• My day of magic arrived on a bright autumn morning, when the poplar trees swayed against a golden city.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 28 June 2019
• This fungal disease attacks poplars, spruces, and stone fruits.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• For a light wood option, substitute birch plywood and edge tape for all of the plywood parts, and replace oak with maple or poplar.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2019
• Take walks along country roads lined with color-popping poplar, willow and oak trees.
  — Sharon Boorstin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• Amid the blast-walls and quick-fix buildings of the new city, her centre was built of Afghan cedar and white Herat marble in the style of a qala, or fort, around a courtyard bounded with poplars.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• TruBee features honey (6 oz.) produced by free-range bees who forage for tulip poplar, fruit blossoms, and black locust in the spring.
  — Erin Shaw Street, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Philip Samuel Cole Jr. is buried next to his parents and his baby brother, three flat stones embedded under all that oak and poplar.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2017
• The scene resembled a parade route with people facing outward, at the thicket of tulip poplars, hemlocks, red oaks and maple trees.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• After a few more minutes of walking through the oaks and tulip poplars, the conservationists ran across one such defunct trail.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
• Expect to see a lot of pine, oak, mahogany, walnut, and poplar crafted in his patchwork-style furniture.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 6 Mar. 2017
• Expect to see a lot of pine, oak, mahogany, walnut, and poplar crafted in his patchwork-style furniture.
  — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 6 Mar. 2017
• The lovely Arcadia region, lush with cypress, poplar, and olive groves, bears traces of the virgin wilderness where nymphs, naiads, and the horned god Pan once frolicked.
  — Thomas Linkel, National Geographic, 18 July 2019
• Arched doorways of maple and poplar in the north addition of the St. George Utah Temple replicate original millwork in the historic temple.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
• The oyster and chestnuts mushrooms can be grown on soft hardwood like aspen, poplar or cottonwood.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• Some of them include: glossy abelia, beauty berries, hydrangeas, Bradford and Callery pears, crabapples, poplar, spruce, junipers, sumacs, cherries, and plums.
  — Leah Zerbe, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2018
• Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2020
• We were flanked by endless orange fields on the way to Bakersfield, followed by poplars and palms, this after the already powerful mix of sequoias.
  — Blake Snow, latimes.com, 20 May 2018
• One possibility would be to plant the poplars at the lowest point on our property down the hill to provide a screen and some fall color; then plant some Leyland cypress up the hill closer to the house.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• Pissarro puns, in fact, on the resemblance of the smokestacks, atmospherically softened, to the poplar trees rising to their right, the made and the natural evened out by light.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Crawfish Valley spread out below him, dense stands of poplars, oaks, white pines, and rhododendron thickets, the nearest overgrown service road miles away.
  — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024