How to Use cattail in a Sentence

cattail

noun
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  • As spring progresses, look for shallow bays, shallow shorelines, weed beds, cattails, and brush along the banks.
    — Nicole Stone, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
  • Skunk cabbage and buttercups, cattails, polliwogs and crayfish with their pulse-train song.
    — Carolyn Forché, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the green tufts of grass are made up of wild rice and cattails.
    — Ben Raines | [email protected], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • What about touching the base of the new cattail spike with a squirt of Roundup?
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2021
  • In a low point to the south, a small cattail marsh gathered runoff from the area.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Ms. Boulet likes to bring her dogs and watch the sun set on the cattail fringe of the wetland with a pint.
    — Rachel Wharton The New York Times The New York Times, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
  • The crowd seemed to back off, but many still left the arena that night cattails in hand.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Standing in a clump of cattails, the mist on the slough before me shrouded the shapes of teal sitting on the far side.
    — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Muskrat lodges—small mounds made from bulrush and cattail—dot the landscape.
    — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2016
  • If there were no project, the prediction is that the waterway would fill with cattails in time.
    — Lola Sherman Seaside Musings, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • In one of her demonstrations, Muldoon used moistened cattail to weave the seat of an old chair.
    — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This is a hike to take at a leisurely pace with eyes and ears tuned to the tree canopy and cattail reeds swaying in boggy inlets.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • While the nest floats, it is usually attached to reed or cattail stalks to anchor it in place.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • New cattail leaves grow 2 to 5 feet, making marshes look green again.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • The male blackbirds tend to perch atop cattails, while the females spend more time on the ground, foraging and hopping around on lily pads.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Regardless, fans didn't hold back on the floor, moshing, bouncing and, for some, even ripping cattails out of the ground to wave to the music.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • An Eastern phoebe perched on a cattail stem and an incoming swamp sparrow called from the thick grass.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There's a course with smoked lake fish, cattails, wild rice dumplings, watercress and nettles.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019
  • November is for kickin’ roosters in the cattails behind a good bird dog.
    — Drew Palmer, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2020
  • Fuzzy cattails wave in the sea breeze several feet above our heads and a stream bubbles into a pond, all part of the varied ecosystem of the delta.
    — Starre Vartan, National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This particular type is made of at least 50 percent swamp plants like reeds, sedges, and cattails.
    — Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 28 July 2010
  • Their firm, Jíbaro Furniture, makes use of hardwoods and cattail.
    — Javier E. Piñero, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • A dozen other hunters were visible in the field and an adjoining cattail slough.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Mosquitoes that breed in the reeds and cattails around the lagoon have plagued nearby residents for years.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • During the fall of 1968, while duck and goose hunting with my dad and his buddies, we were getting set to approach a cattail slough where geese had spent the night and would leave soon.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Trackers and still-hunters in the big woods, swamps and cattail sloughs will most often shoot offhand using no rest or, at best, leaning against a tree.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There are three bird observation spots where visitors can sit and watch birds come and go from the scenic pond, its banks lined with reeds and cattails.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • One of my best public-land spots is a hardwood peninsula that juts out into a big cattail marsh.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Twitching a top-water frog next to cattails sparked the tell-tale swirl and explosion as a largemouth bass inhaled its prey.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Willows, cattails, small fish and Sonoran mud turtles have returned to sections of the river that now flow year-round.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023

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