Examples of box elder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These are box elder bugs in various stages of development. — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2021 Tree plantings included silver maple, box elder, swamp and black oak, and varieties of birch, cedar, and willow trees. — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021 Coming in next is the box elder, which makes up only 4% of trees. — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021 Sugar and black maples are best, but red maples, silver maples and box elder trees will work, too. — Susan Dietrich Hassler, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021 During the winter untold millions of animals — toads, frogs, salamanders, snapping turtles, garter snakes, bats, wood ticks, mosquito larvae and box elder bugs — are hibernating across Minnesota. — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020 The canyon is filled with box elders that had not yet leafed out, and above us sandstone cliffs soared like skyscrapers. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019 The water runs fast, flashing between banks of oak and willow, cottonwood and box elder and hackberry, and intricate wild-haired tapestries of fern. — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019 Colorado College State of the Rockies project specialist Cyndy Hines pointed to cottonwood trees, box elders, willows and rare flowers. — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019

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