How to Use sapwood in a Sentence

sapwood

noun

• These girdling roots cause compression of the stem and sapwood.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• When accounting for the missing sapwood (nine rings for Baltic oak), this means the trees were felled in 1625 or later.
  — Aoife Daly, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• The evaluation assesses the tree’s vigor, the thickness of its sapwood shell, its disease stresses, the state of the roots and the like.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 17 Jan. 2018
• This can also occur when trees are planted too deep, as adventitious (growing sideways from the stem) roots grow against the stem and squeeze the sapwood.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The construction-common and deck-common grades of redwood decking are both streaked with sapwood and contain knots.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2020
• There are also grades available containing some sapwood, which will be a bit cheaper.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2021
• The sapwood’s structure already performs a filtering action in the living wood, screening out air bubbles from the tree sap.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• Such wounds usually do not knit back together, even if the branch is secured back into place; the tissues that the interrupted sapwood kept alive will dry out and die on the growth past the break.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• If the swing is true, there will resonate from the tree — through still-growing sapwood to the compressed cells of the dying core — a deeply satisfying, percussive boom, scattering birds and startling deer.
  — Jonny Diamond, Longreads, 8 June 2019
• Researchers have successfully used a 1-cubic-inch block of pine sapwood as a water filter.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• First, the woodpeckers drill through the resinous sapwood, stopping occasionally to let the sap build up on the exterior, which forms a protective plate around the two-to-three-inch-wide entry hole.
  — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
• In late summer, the larva tunnels outward through the sapwood and stops near the bark.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
• The trick is to find a live tree with lots of termite activity, such that the trunk has been hollowed out leaving just the living sapwood shell.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Fungus can reduce wood strength and may kill storage and conductive tissues in the sapwood.
  — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
• What could work, however, is a filter made from some flexible hose, glue, and a chunk of pine sapwood.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020