How to Use hackberry in a Sentence

hackberry

noun

• There are two out-and-back trails, one to a bird pond ringed by willow, walnut and hackberry trees.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
• These tiny insects live wherever there are hackberry trees and suck on their juices.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
• Down in the cool woods of the reserve, Oien opened a box chained to the base of a hackberry tree, and switched on the caller.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• Big sycamore, cottonwood, willow, ash and hackberry trees grow along the river.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• When my parents moved in 30 years ago, their neighbors had an enormous hackberry tree that dropped seeds into our yard.
  — Jessie Kissinger, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2020
• The area will have a garden path with a variety of hackberry and sycamore trees, black-eyed Susans, and autumn joy plants.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
• The area will have a garden path with a variety of hackberry and sycamore trees, black-eyed Susans, and autumn joy plants.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
• The area will have a garden path with a variety of hackberry and sycamore trees, black-eyed Susans, and autumn joy plants.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Aug. 2025
• The new set of trees that were planted a few weeks ago include hickory, hackberry, Kentucky coffee and tulip trees.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
• Lined with wolfberry shrubs and paloverde, mesquite and hackberry trees, the wash meanders in a northeast arch on the preserve’s far northwest edge.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• Mostly open to the sun, the trails pass among mesquite patches, desert hackberry shrubs and sections where runoff from the canal dike fosters lush greenery that attracts wildlife.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• To use three examples that are commonly hit by mistletoe, hackberry limbs are more vulnerable than cedar elms or bois d’arcs.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• Five types that come up commonly in the beds at our house are cottonwoods, willows, hackberries, mulberries and box elders.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
• As the hills close in on the road, desert hackberry trees, although present as midsize shrubs earlier in the hike, suddenly appear as robust trees.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• Take the opportunity to prune off the stems of hackberry, mulberry and other unwanted seedlings in your shrub beds and fence lines.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Trees include Douglas fir, Colorado blue spruce, lodgepole pine, piñon pine and common hackberry.
  — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• The mother trees are somewhere else, and the seeds have been brought in by birds (mulberries, hackberries) or the wind (cottonwoods, willows and box elders).
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
• Some low-maintenance trees that come to mind are gingko, hackberry, Kentucky coffee tree and serviceberry.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
• On a windswept hill on the cemetery’s southern fringes, Huse pointed out a dwarf hackberry tree that is the co-champion in size in Virginia.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 17 Jan. 2018
• The tree canopy at Minshall Alar Preserve includes hackberry, red maple and basswood, among many others.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• The cabinet’s top and front are made from a composite, but the sides are local hackberry boards distinguished by a striking vertical crack.
  — Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• This product finishes the job on controlling unwanted seedlings, such as hackberry and mulberry, that have sprouted on your fence line or in the rose bed.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 7 May 2021
• Vigorous, even invasive native Texas trees known as hackberries.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Actually, a bumper crop of Asian woolly hackberry aphids is floating through yards, clinging to trees, and even landing in people's laps.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
• So, too, were the tiny hackberries, persimmons, wolfberries and just about every other form of hard and soft mast on which the feral hogs had feasted during autumn.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Now also is a good time to control hardwood seedlings such as hackberry, mulberry and Chinaberry and vining weeds such as Smilax and catsclaw.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
• More Information Now is a good time to prune hackberry, mulberry and other unwanted seedlings out of your landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• The mixed oak/hackberry woodlands found on the property’s chenier ridges are crucial resting/feeding stations for swarms of songbirds that pass through the area on spring and autumn migrations.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• This week in the garden Now is one of the best times to remove hackberry, Chinaberry, mulberry and other unwanted sprouts in the landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020