Mesquite used in a sentence

Mesquite in a sentence as a noun

You gotta chop the mesquite before you can smoke the ribs.

Joshua trees or mesquite don't scratch the same instinctual itch.

But the general message, "chop the mesquite before you can smoke the ribs", I agree very much on.

I wonder if they really used mesquite as their wood or if that was some artistic license on the author's part.

There are no trees nor large cactus... it's arid grassland with cholla and prickly pear cactus and low scrubby mesquite.

I would think that mesquite-scrub country would be great elephant habitat.

Planting native eh?Thistle, mesquite, dandelion, and cactus don't really sit well with home-owners associations.