How to Use mugwort in a Sentence

mugwort

noun
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  • Tiny leaves of just-snipped mugwort balance the brooding force of black rice and baby turnips.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • Nettles and mugwort emerge at this time of year, and both are used in TCM for treating your liver.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Here's to hoping Baby Kimye figures out which way's up thanks to that mugwort.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 24 Nov. 2015
  • Vivid green kusa mochi are made with Japanese mugwort (a close cousin to the stuff that gives absinthe its color) that’s kneaded into the dough.
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Once you’re seated, steam from a container of mugwort tea and herbs rises and slithers up to its target.
    — Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2017
  • For two weeks, men carved prayer sticks and bundled bamboo grass or mugwort to burn for purification.
    — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Duck into Olympic Spa — an oxygen room, a mugwort bath — for another reprieve, the warmth from the heated jade floor a slow fuse of comfort.
    — Amy Scattergood, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In writing about foraging mugwort for Grist last summer, Zoe Yang gets at what an end point might look like instead.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Zinke talked about how her mom would pick yomogi, Japanese mugwort, growing wild along the sidewalks to flavor mochi.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • This mugwort was harvested from a teeming field behind the house, close to where a bear recently wandered onto the back porch, crushing the ferns.
    — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • One trend has been the posting of videos, tweets and images of herbs including mugwort, pennyroyal and blue cohosh.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
  • But, there also exist honkaku shochu made with mugwort, chestnut, enoki mushroom, onion, green tea, wakame seaweed, shiso, and sesame.
    — TheWeek, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Through the featured mugwort, expect the essence to quell sensitivity and redness.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In the case of the 172-acre Governors Island, much of which is overseen by a nonprofit trust, the farm animals were seen as a helpful way to deal with the two species, phragmites (also known as the common reed) and mugwort.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Waves crash against the sea wall, which sits below a steep bank of weeds — susuki (Japanese pampas grass), Japanese mugwort and feral hydrangea.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The Deptford pink (Dianthus armeria) is not in the same league as more famous and rapacious invaders like phragmites, mugwort or bittersweet.
    — Dave Taft, New York Times, 26 June 2017
  • Herbalists often recommend mugwort, either in a tea or tincture, for vivid dreams and inner vision.
    — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • In the sweep of a pad, fruit AHAs gently resurface, niacinamide and Japanese mugwort visibly even skin tone, reduce redness and firm the look of pores, while wild rose minimizes excess oil and sebum.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Ingredient apps like Think Dirty help aficionados weigh the difference between mugwort and St. John’s wort.
    — Lauren Ingram, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The blue pill contains mugwort and valerian root, two herbs commonly used for insomnia.
    — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2019
  • Lai wrapped those shore crabs in crispy potato skin rolls topped with melty local Gouda cheese, folded herbaceous mugwort into steamed rice, and even smoked cicadas to top kale salads with an unexpected crunch.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But these videos always show elaborate ice molds, unattainable ingredients like mugwort and edible flowers, and all sorts of serving tools that while beautiful, aren't entirely true to the idea of a home café.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • But these videos always show elaborate ice moulds, unattainable ingredients like mugwort and edible flowers, and all sorts of serving tools that while beautiful, aren't entirely true to the idea of a home café.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • This toner's shake-before-use formula combines hyaluronic acid, squalene, and mugwort.
    — Lindsey Metrus, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
  • Choose at least one smaller tree, like elderberry, California black walnut or laurel, plus berry-rich shrubs like toyon and low-growing or groundcover plants like mugwort to grow under and around the oak tree.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Or knitting needles, poison, bullets, mugwort — or anything else desperate women have turned to as legislators have stripped away their rights?
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Licensed practitioners also combine it with moxibustion, which involves burning the herb mugwort (or moxa) near acupuncture points, to turn a breech baby.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Across from a chocolate maker, a collective of herbalists, midwives, and bonesetters operate a small medicinal garden with plots of mugwort and rue, selling soaps and supplements out of their shop.
    — Julien Capmeil, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Garlic mustard and chickweed at the start of spring, elderflower and nettle in the season; serviceberries, mulberries and mugwort in summer; and pawpaws, persimmons and crab apples in fall.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There, dogs and cats are inserted with needles paired with mild electric currents, followed by a moxibustion treatment that heats up dried mugwort herbs to stimulate particular acupuncture points.
    — Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2018

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