How to Use red maple in a Sentence

red maple

noun
  • My red maple tree is opening its buds and starting growth.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The large tree — a red maple — was about two feet in diameter.
    — CBS News, 28 July 2022
  • Tata Harper's crème riche is known for its red maple bark and hyaluronic acid.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2021
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Our flag is dominated by a red maple leaf on a white background.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The red maple is one of the best known and does have that red or red-orange color early in the fall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The valley forest has a plethora of red maple trees aflame with color in the fall.
    — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Fall color appears first in the reds of sourwoods, dogwoods and red maples.
    — Karen Chávez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Despite its common name, red maple does not have red leaves through the whole growing season.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The swamp forest in this area includes tamarack, silver maple, red maple, and green ash.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The saplings of red maple, northeastern red oak and eastern redbud are $5 each.
    — cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • And patches of hickory beech, red maple, and birch trees sprinkled the heathlands.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
  • There is nothing like a blazing bright red maple tree to celebrate the beauty of autumn.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
  • They are known to feed on over 70 plant species, including black walnut, red maple and tree of heaven.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • There’s a red maple branch, for instance, that looks plucked from a Vermont tree during the fall peak season.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Outside, a few stubborn red maple leaves clung to branches, hanging near our dining room window.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The grant will help pay for serviceberry shrubs, ornamental grass and red maple trees.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Maples differ by species, as red maple turns brilliant scarlet; sugar maple, orange-red; and black maple, yellow.
    — Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • My main goal is to establish an understory with dogwood, spice bush, redbud and red maple.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 May 2021
  • Other species that are thriving in the swampy water include hibiscus, cypress trees and red maple.
    — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In addition to the large conifers, the area has hardwoods including yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple and red oak.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Seedlings will include red maple, sugar maple, Douglas-fir and more, according to a press release.
    — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Maple trees include sugar maple and red maple, with sugar maples turning bright red and red maples going from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The large tree was a red maple approximately 2 feet in diameter, the park said.
    — Fox News, 27 July 2022
  • This Ghost of Yōtei haunts the red maple forests and stalks the snowy tundra in search of those whose names are written on the sash wrapped around her waist.
    — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In front of my house stands a mediocre specimen of the locally native red maple, Acer rubrum.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Kwiatkowski said luna moth caterpillars are also known to feed on the leaves of hickory, birch, red maple, white oak, and sassafras.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • Clients also tend to want giant river birches, red maples, elms, and Japanese zelkovas.
    — Ben Kesslen, Curbed, 29 June 2026

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