Example Sentences

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For instance, Odell loved the manzanitas that grow prolifically around his family’s 40-acre ranch in Shasta County.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

Bohl and her husband removed the lawn and laid 2 inches of river rock approximately 3/4 to 1-inch wide, planting with agaves, manzanitas and yuccas.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

They later returned to find their 1,500-plant pollinator garden incinerated and the massive, ancient manzanitas atop the mountain gone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2023

They had protected a swath of homes tucked deep into stands of pines, sycamores and manzanitas, but they were exhausted.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2015

There are marshes and morasses away up among these mountains, where alders and water beeches, manzanitas, and other shrubs grow so thick that their branches intertwine to nearly their full length.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.