How to Use jacaranda in a Sentence

jacaranda

noun

• At a live baseball game, a concert, the jacaranda trees in bloom.
  — Diana Wagman, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• The olive and jacaranda trees look as if they were trucked in from a nursery the week before.
  — Richard McGill Murphy, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
• Zohran spent his first five years there, playing in the lush gardens under jacaranda trees.
  — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
• Or, caring for a time—blue hour, dawn, winter, jacaranda season.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
• Bougainvillea vines and jacaranda petals spill onto every street.
  — Anna Deutsch, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 May 2019
• The hue blended in with trees blooming with purplish jacaranda flowers.
  — Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• The blooming of jacarandas often signals the start of pre-summer, the most hopeful time of year.
  — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The jacaranda tree produces foot-long clusters of blooms measuring about two inches apiece.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 27 June 2022
• Most local nurseries don’t stock jacaranda trees year round because of their frost tenderness.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 13 Oct. 2017
• The hues range from bright purple jacaranda trees and stunning hot pink city sunsets to gray concrete structures and dark city streets.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 15 June 2022
• One last plastic lawn chair remained open under the shade of a jacaranda tree, and the man in the next seat over nodded toward it.
  — Eric Barton, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• My parents used to dress us up in our traditional clothes and take photos of us in front of the bougainvillea or the jacaranda tree.
  — Jerald “coop” Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• Bright blue jacaranda trees brighten the courtyards, and everywhere cleaners with mops attack the grime of the city.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa, 30 Dec. 2019
• Out near La Brea, drizzle blows through jacaranda, a gardener hurries past a pool.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Similar to the jacaranda, the tree also blooms with flowers — in its case, beautiful yellow ones.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• By March, the metropolis blooms into its jacaranda season which turns the city purple.
  — Atenea Morales De La Cruz, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
• Violet jacaranda trees and bougainvillea flowers of radiant pink and royal purple are in full bloom.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Elsewhere in the country, city streets in Johannesburg are blooming with jacaranda trees.
  — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Jan. 2022
• People pausing to take photos of the plentiful jacaranda trees and their gorgeous purple blossoms.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
• Meanwhile, cyclists glide past boutique galleries and beach cafés, as locals linger over cortados beneath jacaranda trees.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Finding dead end streets, eating at random restaurants, observing the jacaranda trees loose their purple flowers.
  — Gael Couturier, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2019
• For whites, even in war, Rhodesia was caught in a time warp of country clubs and drinks at sunset on shaded terraces scented by bougainvillea and jacaranda.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• The curbside carrotwood, magnolia, jacaranda, liquid amber and podocarpus trees have not been stolen.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
• This is also true of floss silk tree (Ceiba species), which shares jacaranda’s South American habitat.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
• Now my mother is making over the garden in rambling color, overwriting its history, once again, with olive trees, a fig, kitchen herbs, and a jacaranda.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• As hummingbirds dart among arbutus trees, the gardenias and carissa flowering beneath a jacaranda scent the air near the door.
  — Emily Young, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• That property was filled with cypress, eucalyptus, palms, and jacaranda—and, along the way, was re-dubbed Balboa Park.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 May 2018
• The landscape team removed a 75-foot eucalyptus tree and planted a jacaranda in one section to create shade for Roxy and her pals.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• During this time of year, festival season is in full swing, temperatures hover around the balmy 70s, and the city's purple jacaranda trees are in full bloom across the city.
  — Sarah Reid, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2024
• Little purple blossoms appearing on my lawn mean my jacaranda tree will soon be in bloom, leaving its sticky remnants all over the sidewalk, lawn and anyone foolish enough to park underneath it.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026