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How to use mesquite in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Mesquite means any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour. Example: “Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.”

Examples of mesquite by meaning

nounCountry or land dominated by mesquite trees.

  • Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC
  • Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.1900, David Prescott Barrows, The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California

More sentences with mesquite

  • In Lubbock, where Sarah lived, there weren't any trees, just tumbleweeds and scrabbly old mesquite bushes.2013, Tracy Daugherty, Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella, →ISBN. From the entry scrabbly
  • In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service. From the entry browse
  • Mesquite can be used for several purposes, but generally other sources have been more desirable and cheaper.1971 January, R.E. Meyer, H.L. Morton, R.H. Haas, E.D. Robison, T.E. Riley, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of…. From the entry honeymaking
  • Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees.2022 October 27, Julia Morton, “Restoration Efforts in the Colorado River Delta are Working”, in Audubon. From the entry salt cedar
  • Mesquite thorns sliced into my hands, neck and face.2013, Chris Lombard, Land of the Horses, page 129. From the entry duckable
  • Jungle clung to the canyons, but there were broad expanses of brushland grown with mesquite and agave and flowering redbird cactus.1998, Robert Stone, Bear and His Daughter: Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry redbird cactus
  • Possible uses of mesquite have been discussed by Marshall (41).1971 January, R.E. Meyer, H.L. Morton, R.H. Haas, E.D. Robison, T.E. Riley, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of…. From the entry honeymaking
  • We had not gone far when we saw a motorcycle skiwampus by the side of the road and Rubio slumped against a mesquite tree.2014, Nancy Nielson Redd, The Canyon's Edge, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry skiwampus
  • Made from hand-harvested agave hearts roasted over a mesquite fire, Sombra seems a fitting partner for Chartreuse, with its producers’ similar adherence to oldfangled tradition.2009 April 5, Jonathan Miles, “A Splash of Incognito”, in New York Times. From the entry oldfangled
  • Western honey mesquite is distinguished from P. velutina by its jugate leaves and relatively narrow, often large, and rather widely spaced leaflets.2001, Richard Stephen Felger, Matthew Brian Johnson, Michael Francis Wilson, “Fabaceae”, in The trees of Sonora, Mexico, Oxford University…. From the entry jugate
  • There were also additional mesquite trees up top, off which I again beat a single Agrilus sp. along with a few other things, notably a series of ceresine treehoppers.2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae. From the entry ceresine
  • We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 39. From the entry mott
  • Smoked over cherry and mesquite wood, and dried in a convection oven, it gets its flavors from organic blackstrap molasses, Jim Beam bourbon, and salt and pepper.2007 July 25, David Hochman, “For Epicures, a New Take on Jerky”, in New York Times. From the entry blackstrap
  • It is sometimes known as the "gramma grass," and is probably as valuable as any of the true gramma grasses; it is also called "mesquite grass."1902, Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, page 233. From the entry gramma

Meaning of mesquite

  1. noun Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
  2. noun The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
  3. noun Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.

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Questions about mesquite in a sentence

How do you use mesquite in a sentence?
Mesquite is used as a noun. For example: “Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.”
What is a short sentence with mesquite?
“Mesquite thorns sliced into my hands, neck and face.”
What does mesquite mean?
Mesquite means any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.

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