How to Use conifer in a Sentence

conifer

noun
  • The new study identifies boreal forests of the far north and temperate conifer forests as the critical types of ecosystem driving the global increase in extreme wildfires.
    Víctor Fernández García Cristina Santín, WIRED, 8 July 2024
  • Conifers, maples and ferns line the edges of the pond and stream.
    Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • The conifer was the one that led Dr. Dalling to rummage through the brush in the first place.
    Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The conifers are starting to inch out their first growth of the year.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The canyon sides were steep and sandy; the sun was hot and the wind was bending the tall conifers.
    John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The future: The timeline for mixed conifer forests is for trees to grow less than a foot per year.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Rugged scenery shifts from drift ice and mountain peaks to sparkling lakes and old-growth conifer forests.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
  • The conifer is not a pine — purists prefer to call it Wollemia — and is named for the park where it was found, , pronounced .
    Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The fires spurred the production of conifer cones, which had not happened since 2015.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Tall thin trunks, with bushy conifer crowns right at eye level.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Then, the basin was home to prairie-like grasslands, stands of conifer trees and a large body of water known as Lake Otero.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The fire's main fuel sources were brush, ponderosa pine and mixed conifer, the site stated.
    Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Those large conifers may take up soil water at the expense of the golden chain tree.
    oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020
  • This must-have seemed like a bargain at three or four times the price per cubic foot of most conifers.
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 13 July 2019
  • Narrow in growth habit, this dense green conifer would be ideal for a tight space.
    oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And that's something that's affected the war in a lot of ways, is these big, thick conifer forests full of pines, cedar, and firs.
    CBS News, 19 May 2021
  • There were snow covered conifers and robins singing into the cloudless sky.
    Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The fruit of the juniper plant, a conifer, is a type of tiny cone that is similar to a pinecone, according to DNR.
    Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Most mushrooms like shady areas, but chanterelles like sun in conifer forests.
    Allyson Reedy, The Know, 18 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, the pine trees are full of red crossbills, eating conifer seeds.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Above grew conifer trees, ferns, ancient herbs and horsetail plants.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There were pianos in the rhododendrons, pianos in the conifers and pianos in the redwoods.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • The fire continues to burn through mixed conifer with timber litter and dead and down trees.
    Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2019
  • She was released in a conifer forest in upstate New York.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Share [Findings] The world’s oldest bamboo fossil turned out to be a conifer.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The fire is burning through high desert forest of mixed conifer trees and shrubby grasslands.
    oregonlive, 21 July 2021
  • 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
  • Maybe miles and miles of dark, densely packed straight-as-a-rod conifers scared them (the Black Forest name really fits).
    Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Nov. 2019
  • As the fires consumed dry grass, pine, juniper, and conifer, around 8,000 people were forced to evacuate.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024

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