How to Use ice plant in a Sentence

ice plant

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  • In the cities and towns, golden light shines down on ice plants and bougainvillea, and that is beautiful too.
    — Lydia Kiesling, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • And invasive plants such as ice plant also can be food for them.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • And invasive species such as ice plant also can be food for them.
    — Phil Diehl, latimes.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • One minor obstacle: The ball sat in ice plant, perilously near the edge of a cliff.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2021
  • In just five years, the town had a railway station, a country club, a department store and an ice plant.
    — 1843, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Delosperma, also known as ice plant, is a hardy perennial that blooms from spring to frost.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 May 2022
  • Many of the first businesses, including a motel, ice plant, water works and cotton gin, were built by the King Ranch.
    — ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Adaptive reuse is the architectural term of art to describe what Adjaye has done with the ice plant.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Flowers to start from seed: Dianthus, stock, lock spar, asters, Nicotiana, cleome, ice plant, zinnia and salpiglossis.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • More than half of the Reserve is covered with nonnative invasive plants like mustard and ice plant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The suit also points to the presence of non-native ice plant, a water-heavy vegetation said to accelerate erosion, and the thirsty but non-native palms trees at the top of the stairs to the beach.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
  • One of the best at blanketing the landscape with blooms, Granita Orange ice plant only grows about two inches tall, but can spread several feet.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2022
  • When the local ice plant stopped functioning for a few days earlier this month, fishermen were forced to get ice from another plant a few miles away, a taxi trip that added to their ever-growing bills.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The four blocks surrounding this intersection were occupied in the early 1900s by rice mills, an ice plant, horse and mule stables, a yarn and hosiery factory and a streetcar barn; the streets themselves were paved in granite stones.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The organization also is bringing 300 goats to graze on overgrown invasive weeds, such as fennel, ice plant and other non-native plants.
    — Melissa Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Army funneled the creeks into culverts and planted nonnative ivy, eucalyptus and ice plant over the riparian habitat, choking out native plants.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Flowers to start from seed: Dianthus, larkspur, stock, asters, nicotiana, cleome, annual ice plant, zinnia, salpiglossis, snaps, cosmos, lupine, malva. Tubers and corms: Start tuberous begonias and dahlias.
    — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • A few years later, Boley boasted five grocery stores, five hotels, seven restaurants, four cotton gins, three drugstores, a jewelry store, four department stores, two insurance companies, two photographers and an ice plant.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Incidentally, delosperma shouldn’t be confused with highway ice plant (with the botanical name, Carpobrutus).
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Plans also include removing invasive plants, including artichoke thistle, pampas grass and ice plant, on about four acres of the preserve and replacing them with native vegetation such as Dudleya multicaulis, a perennial succulent.
    — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Incidentally, delosperma shouldn’t be confused with another plant, also called ice plant, which actually is a different and invasive species with the botanical name, Carpobrotus.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Jan. 2021

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