How to Use fireweed in a Sentence

fireweed

noun

• The fireweed is finished and there’s a chill in the air.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2021
• By midsummer, though, shoots of lupine and fireweed were peeking through the ground.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• The fireweed is already beginning to bloom in the valleys.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• Nearly every tree had been stripped from the land by the time of the park’s founding, carted away for lumber or fireweed.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• It's been an age-old adage among many fishermen that when the fireweed top out, the silver salmon are hitting their peak.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 July 2017
• Gregus spied on this polar bear cub playing in a patch of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
• Off in the distance, past the fireweed and haphazard wildflowers, bright flashes of white caught the sunlight.
  — Hillary Richard, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• Spruce trees, willows and fireweed should not be mysteries.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile mountain bouquets of aster, fireweed, lupine and glacier lily enthrall at every turn.
  — Hotel Bellwether, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2017
• Researchers are trying to gain insights into what might happen to arctic-alpine plants like those seen on the high mountain slopes, such as forget-me-nots and fireweed.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• Wild greens such as fiddlehead, fireweed, nettle, seaweed and sourdock are also high in fiber.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The standing charred trees, called snags, tower over a forest floor carpeted with lupine, fireweed, wild strawberries, pinegrass, sedges and other plants.
  — Kristen Pope, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2018
• Yellow aspen lit up the valley, dotted with blazing late-season fireweed.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Can someone who might have scientific knowledge of the subject please proffer a theory about what is going on with the fireweed this season?
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 July 2017
• Observe these majestic creatures from a safe range, and photograph their white coats against the magenta fireweed that blankets the tundra each summer.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Fast-growing fireweed and other flowers cover recent burn scars.
  — Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
• The forest floor was nearly bare, except for clumps of charcoal and a few short stems of bracken fern and fireweed, a hot pink flower whose seeds often blow in and germinate just after a conflagration.
  — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
• The dishes often include unique ingredients Anna and Byron have foraged from their land — things like fireweed shoots, spruce tips and woodland violets.
  — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• Alpine meadows burst with blossoms and colors including yellow rhododendron, purple mountain heather, pink azaleas, fuchsia fireweeds, and the white stars of the eschscholtz starwort.
  — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Her peonies prematurely finished their cycle, the summer lilies are flowering and the fireweed is nearly finished blooming.
  — Author: Lauren Ellenbecker, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2019
• In Yao’s second piece, The impossibility of being outside, fireweed—an invasive flowering plant—is allowed to proliferate.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024