How to Use wintergreen in a Sentence

wintergreen

noun

• The next day, the same mouse was put in a distinctly different box—one with the scent of wintergreen and a grid floor, for example.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013
• The Fire & Ice Massage employs cooling wintergreen and hot stones.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• And the scent — wintergreen, bergamot, and of course, lavender — is downright sinus-opening.
  — Claire Valentine, The Cut, 20 Apr. 2018
• Swedish Match sells its snus under the brand name, General, in mint, wintergreen and other flavors.
  — Matthew Perrone, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2019
• The seminar had the dozy air common to classes that take place right after lunch—the fluorescent lights buzzing, the smell of burned coffee and wintergreen gum.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• The taste-of-the-Midwest flavor is lovely, much quieter than maple's robust bite, with gentle citrus and wintergreen notes.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• The white admiral butterfly of the northeastern U.S. and Canada seems to smell like wintergreen—a group of aromatic plants—for a reason.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2016
• The same restrictions — which went into effect by the end of 2018 — apply to mint, wintergreen and fruit-flavored tobacco products.
  — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
• Essential oils such as menthol, spearmint, eucalyptus, wintergreen, tea tree and peppermint are at the core of this body cleanser.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
• This natural shampoo coddles your scalp with aloe leaf juice, baobab 0il, and wintergreen, spearmint, and peppermint oils, so you're left with nothing but clean, moisturized, and healthy hair.
  — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2022
• Flavors from the period like clove and sassafras have given way to an ambiguous array of what might best be called fruit-adjacent flavors, and wintergreen.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Among the essential oils that are toxic to pets are cinnamon, citrus, lemon, pennyroyal, peppermint, pine, sweet birch, tea tree, thyme, wintergreen and ylang ylang.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 17 Jan. 2018
• Boppie always had yellow butterscotch and pink wintergreen candies to share from his shirt pocket, and the huge bowls of popcorn, along with Shasta root-beer floats, were delightfully devoured by all.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2017
• The butterfly—as well as another species, the viceroy—acquire the scent from feeding on wintergreen flowers, says Katy Prudic, an entomologist at the University of Arizona.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2016
• Menthol and Olbas oil (a mixture of peppermint, eucalyptus, cajeput, wintergreen, juniper, and clove) may cause redness and irritation to the eyes.
  — Philly.com, 22 May 2018
• And then less effective though still helpful options include wintergreen oil, geranium oil, pennyroyal oil, and rosemary oil, which showed a 60 to 85 percent reduction in attraction to a bait trap.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 15 July 2021
• The product's main active ingredients are horseradish, wintergreen and cayenne.
  — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• Shah says oils like cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, cassia, black pepper, and wintergreen can be irritating and recommends always using proper dilution and doing a skin patch test first.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 7 May 2018
• Essential oil maker Aura Cacia specifies that asil, clary sage, clove bud, hyssop, sweet fennel, juniper berry, marjoram, myrrh, rosemary, sage, thyme, and wintergreen should be avoided at all costs during pregnancy.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2017
• Blue Venom is infused with the same plumping ingredients as classic Lip Venom, but includes hints of cinnamon, wintergreen, ginger, jojoba and avocado.
  — Seventeen Magazine, Seventeen, 20 Dec. 2010
• Key Ingredients: eucalyptus, clove, aloe vera, vitamin E, and wintergreen.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 21 Sep. 2022
• Its eucalyptus works to reduce inflammation, clove oil treats irritation, aloe vera calms inflammation, peppermint acts as an antiseptic, vitamin E oil moisturizes, and wintergreen stimulates blood circulation.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 21 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024