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Example sentences for: myrtle

How can you use “myrtle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

[From a letter from William H. Koontz of Garden City in The Sun News , Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, . Submitted by .]
At 1,200 m (4,000 ft) and above in large mountain ranges, or as low as 600 m (2,000 ft) on small isolated mountains, the large trees and liana creepers give way to myrtle, laurel, and oak trees.
Naturally Baiae grumbles because its groves Of myrtle are now no longer what one resorts to, And its sulfur hot baths scorned, so celebrated Once upon a time for being good for Everything that ails one, and they're miffed By invalids who go away to put Their heads and shoulders under Clusium's waters Or else to plunge in Gabii's frigid baths.
On the one hand there were names which were qualified before being applied, like wild currant, wild fig, wild geranium, wild indigo, wild parsnip, wild spinach, wild yam; or native flax, nabox, native cherry, native cranberry, native flax, native grass, native myrtle, native parsley, native plum; or names in which the qualifier is a color, as in blue gum, green wattle, white honeysuckle.