How to Use sugar maple in a Sentence

sugar maple

noun
  • Berlinghof removed the drill from the sugar maple and the sap was flowing.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The March full moon is also known as the sap moon, since this is the time of year when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The state also produces some of the best sugar maple and red oak timber in the world.
    Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The good ones are the sugar maples, their leaves ablaze each fall in yellow, red and orange.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • One of the first trees to greet you outside is an enormous sugar maple.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The March full moon is also known as the sap moon, because this is the time of year when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • One of the remaining trees is a sugar maple that the couple has tapped in the past to get their own maple syrup.
    Nate Owen, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The orange donor dot has now been moved to a larger sugar maple leaf that is more pronounced on the card.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
  • My aunt walked down the garden path to exchange wedding vows beneath the shade of the sugar maple.
    Leigh Crandall, Country Living, 4 June 2020
  • Reed said the lack of rain likely would apply only to the sugar maples, which would tend to mute the red pigments.
    Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Bruce Hopper grabs a bucket to be hung from a sugar maple tree the old-fashioned way.
    John Tlumacki, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • On the distillery tour, visitors can see where the sugar maple wood is burned for the charcoal.
    al, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The black bear is the state animal, the sugar maple is the state tree, the cardinal is the state bird, and the rhododendron is the state flower.
    USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Jerry shared some of this knowledge while pissing near the eighth tee, against a sugar maple.
    David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Think of the difference between a Christmas tree and a sugar maple.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Trees Available are: blue spruce, white pine, red oak, sugar maple, wild black cherry, and sycamore.
    'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Red maples don scarlet, and sugar maples -- well known for vivid displays -- may sport the full fall palette.
    cleveland, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Shitakes need to be grown on a hardwood like oak, ironwood or sugar maple.
    Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Campbell, a sugar maple planted in Cody’s honor is no longer a sapling.
    Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • For years, people stopped to stare at the sugar maple tree in its fall glory in Sandra Peters’ front yard.
    Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • Their graves, former settlements and dancing sites can still be found among the stands of sugar maple, oak, birch and white pine.
    New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The steepled churches, town greens, mill dams, lumber mills and sugar maples of these West-migrating Yankees extended all the way to the edge of the prairie.
    Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • West Virginia West Virginia adopted the sugar maple as the official state tree in 1949.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Blazing red sugar maples dapple the fields as the train speeds through Hatfield, Whately, and Deerfield, on to Greenfield.
    Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Help survey maple trees that are part of a national sugar maple research study.
    Post-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • There's even an old-growth sugar maple and American beech forest.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Red and sugar maples, along with American beech, pines, oaks, poplars, and elms, are most likely to develop tree girdling due to roots.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2024
  • Seedlings will include red maple, sugar maple, Douglas-fir and more, according to a press release.
    Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Trying to train a sugar maple to grow a 60-foot-tall straight trunk is an exercise in futility.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In addition, drought conditions have weakened fast-growing trees such as sugar maples, box elders and willows, which are most prone to losing limbs.
    Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024

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