How To Use Ailanthus In A Sentence
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When I read how many thousands of dollars a city like New York has to spend to keep underground water pipes free of ailanthus, ginko, and sycamore roots, I cannot help but give a little cheer.
Nature & Environment
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I crossed a vacant lot, a parking lot filled with cinders and broken glass and longed for an ailanthus tree to break the prison-gray walls and ground all around.
All the Way to Heaven is Heaven
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Barberry, knotweed, and ailanthus are just some of the horticultural immigrants that continue to out-compete many of our indigenous species.
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Oudolf has made some knowing winks to New York City's indigenous (or ubiquitous) plant life, including his use of sumac, a shrub with compound leaves reminiscent of Ailanthus altissima, the weedlike "tree of heaven" apostrophized in Betty Smith's best-selling novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn of 1943 as an archetypal urban survivor accustomed to the toughest settings.
Up in the Park
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They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads.
Underworld
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We see that all the time here, as what starts as a few ailanthus become a stand of solid ailanthus.
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I was hoping to find a crack in the pavement where my ailanthus of a poem could take root.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Chop down an ailanthus or robinia tree and distant suckers will pop up.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're not on friendly terms with them, you could print out The Monday Garden article on ailanthus and stick it under their front door.
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Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces.
Underworld
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A giant ailanthus tree, at least fifty feet tall, was growing up right between the derelict seats.
The Lampshade
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Chop down an ailanthus or robinia tree and distant suckers will pop up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barberry, knotweed, ailanthus, and the brilliant Euonymus known as burning bush are just some of the horticultural immigrants that continue to out-compete many of our indigenous species.
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I am sure I told you that they would not live here in the open air, but they do in China; and the ailanthus is a Chinese tree.
Among the Trees at Elmridge
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People walking their dogs go by or wait while their inquisitive pets sniff around the ailanthus in front of the house.
David Finkle: Stooping to the Highest Level
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He'd describe his love for this tree that grew all over North Philadelphia, the ailanthus - something I'd always considered a big weed.
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There won't even be an ailanthus tree and a broken fountain in the back yard.