Sourwood is not abundant anywhere, and seldom are more than a few trees found in a group.
The strength and elasticity of sourwood are moderate.
The sourwood tree at its best is fifty or sixty feet high and from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter.
It is said also that if one should sleep beside a fire containing sourwood sticks the sourwood "will barbecue him," which may possibly mean that he will have hot or feverish pains thereafter.
Then the medicine-man drove seven sourwood stakes through his body and pinned him to the ground, and when night came they piled great logs over him and set fire to them, and all the people gathered around to see.
They chose seven men to go, and gave each a sourwood rod a hand-breadth long.
Sourwood (Oxydendrum) is used by the hunters for barbecue sticks to roast meat before the fire, on account of the acid flavor of the wood, which they believe to be thus communicated to the meat.
The runners are usually made of naturalsourwood crooks, this timber being chosen because it wears very smooth and does not fur up nor splinter.
The aspen fluttered its yellow leaves in applause, and the sourwood threw at him by the breeze's hand a cluster of its scarlet foliage.
The sourwood put forth the satin of its tender leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sourwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
