How to Use sassafras in a Sentence

sassafras

noun

• The sassafras adds a grassy, slightly sour note, and the berries bring more color and tang.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• Bay leaf and sassafras trees and plants are also on the bug’s nesting list.
  — Willie James Inman, Fox News, 13 July 2017
• Cow parsley was also called is crow’s foot, and sassafras is the tea that was said to thin blood.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Once inside the park, the tulip poplars, dogwoods, black cherry, sassafras and pawpaw trees are breathtaking.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Made with sassafras, vanilla and cinnamon sticks, this creamy, lively soft drink comes with one free refill, for $4.
  — Carla Meyer, sacbee.com, 1 June 2017
• My Grandmama talked about living off of livers and gizzards and poke salad, sassafras tea and chicory root.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2021
• Black cherry, thyme and a hint of sassafras — simple, straightforward and delicious.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
• This savory blend of sangiovese, merlot and sagrantino is deep and sophisticated, with notes of dark plums, cherries, cloves and sassafras.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• State Forester David Arnold says in a news release that sassafras and spicebush are important ecological species in Tennessee.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2019
• Three-fifths of the surrounding county was state or federal forest, thick with mountain laurel and, in warmer months, teeming with mushrooms, ramps, ginseng, goldenseal, and sassafras.
  — Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• One of owner Katherine Clapner’s latest creations is a lemon-sassafras soft serve with fresh-baked vanilla bean scone crumble and dewberry compote.
  — Cristin Espinosa, Dallas News, 22 June 2021
• Elsewhere, maidenhair, blue cohosh and sassafras abound, auguries of a nutrient-heavy, fertile forest floor.
  — Jonny Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022
• The woodlands contain many tree species, including shag bark hickory, sassafras and flowering dogwoods.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
• Sweetbay magnolia and sassafras trees have materialized.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 15 June 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024