How to Use alder in a Sentence

alder

noun

• The guy that gets us the alder wood planks to smoke the salmon on.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
• Look at the slide alder down there, all the ground squirrels.
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2013
• Today a blue jay hopped along the shore near where a beaver had built a lodge of alder limbs.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• The dry, bone-white stems poke from mint-green alders and willows, 100 steps from the water.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2019
• Maple, alder, birch elm and the cedar family are the main culprits at this time.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Then the team began removing bark and decayed wood near the base of the alder tree.
  — Nicholas K. Geranios, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The land is wet and green, with thousands of lakes and streams flowing through meadows and stands of pine and alder.
  — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
• As our team plods upstream from the creek’s mouth, the stream is flanked by alder and cottonwood trees.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Free as jazz, the yellow-and-green branches of the budding alders around her waved in a joyful spring breeze.
  — Nisi Shawl, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• The alder body helps him cop a Stevie Ray Vaughan-esque tone.
  — AL.com, 23 June 2017
• Dark grains may be cooked hot and fast like coffee beans, toasted low and long, or smoked over beech or alder.
  — William Bostwick, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• In a dry outdoor location, plug the smoker in and fill the smoking pan with alder chips.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2020
• New Haven has a legislative services office that works with the board of alders.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Courant Community, 19 July 2017
• From across the desolate country road amid a dense thicket of alders came the telltale sounds of a buck fight.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2020
• There are some trees, a few mature spruce and birch as well as alder brush, but little in the way of burnable firewood.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
• These are the very places where willow, alder and, in time, conifer forests should establish themselves.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• Tree pollen is low/moderate, with alder, birch and the cedar family making up most of the count.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• Working in four- to eight- hour shifts, the teams cut down bush alders and help repair parts of the trail affected by erosion, Cleary said.
  — Conocophillips Alaska, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• With that, the beautiful bird jumped off the low branch and walked off into an alder patch, tired of my gibberish.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
• Along the roads, laurel, viburnum, and alder, great ferns and wild flowers delighted the traveller’s eye through much of the year.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• Then the living each took up a ceremonial handful of soil and placed it at the base of an alder tree.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• The photo showed the alder blockade, the bus on the other side on the narrow mountain logging road, no other way out.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
• The meat then rests for two to three days in the walk-in before being loaded into a smoker with pecan and alder woods, to cook for eight hours.
  — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Made with sustainable alder wood, this handmade box is perfect for a friend who loves things that sparkle.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2022
• But the tentative vision is to return pine forests to the upper slopes of the valley, willow and alder to the floodplain, and oak and birch to the valley sides.
  — WIRED, 22 July 2023
• The foyer also got a makeover, with a custom storage bench in alder with a chestnut finish and black glaze on top.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
• The woods thin to a mix of alder interspersed with big Douglas firs and red huckleberry.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• The fire is burning in dry grass and shrubs like alder and willow in the mostly treeless tundra in southwest Alaska.
  — Anchorage Daily News Staff and Wire Reports, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
• Shiitake mushrooms grow best on oak, but other hardwoods such as elm, sweet gum, maple, and alder also work well.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
• Wilke has led efforts in improving Hartung Park and the Menomonee Parkway during his tenure as an alder.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024