How to Use giant sequoia in a Sentence

giant sequoia

noun
  • In the land of giant sequoias, the largest tree in the world gets a checkup.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • The charred corpse of a giant sequoia poked into the smoky haze.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • By contrast, in the past six years, four large fires burned two-thirds of the giant sequoia range.
    Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
  • To stand in the shadow of a giant sequoia is to feel the heft of history drape over you.
    Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • One of those good burns was in the vicinity of the grove’s star, the 3,000-year-old Stagg tree, the fifth-largest giant sequoia on record.
    Bettina Boxall, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Mariposa Grove is one of three giant sequoia groves in Yosemite.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • Some species, such as the giant sequoia, rely on the heat of a fire to dry out and crack open their cones to release seeds across the forest floor.
    New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • The giant sequoia is the world's largest tree by volume and closely related to the redwood, the world's tallest.
    Brian Melley, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The giant sequoia is the world’s largest tree by volume and closely related to the redwood, the world’s tallest.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Only two other tree species in the world can live longer than the giant sequoia -- bristlecone pines and Alerce trees.
    Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • For a little more peace with your giant sequoia gazing, head to Tuolumne Grove.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • General Sherman — the giant sequoia and one of the largest living trees in the world — is still standing.
    Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The cones of certain pines, like the lodgepole and giant sequoia, open only when blasted with fire.
    Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Dams crested, century-old giant sequoia trees toppled, and a stretch of the Central Coast was cut off from the rest of the state.
    Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Per the Chronicle, among the fallen is the planet’s ninth-largest giant sequoia, nicknamed the King Arthur tree.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
  • Alder Creek, as the area is known, is the largest giant sequoia property that still remains in private hands.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The two parks, which are jointly administered, are known for the giant sequoia trees.
    Andy Rose, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • The giant sequoia and redwood are closely related but not the exact same kind of tree.
    Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • That’s because giant sequoias are among the oldest living things on Earth.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
  • The giant sequoia is estimated to be around 2,200 years old.
    NBC News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • There is a giant sequoia in Northeast Portland that elicits a lot of emotions.
    oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
  • By the end of the year, scientists hope to have mapped the complete genome of the coast redwood and of the giant sequoia, a close cousin that also is among the tallest trees in the world, some reaching hundreds of feet high.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • In total, 28 giant sequoia groves were affected by the fires.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • At one point, flames swept into the crown of the Bench Tree, a giant sequoia whose base serves as a popular sitting area for visitors.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The main concern has been the Giant Forest, which contains the General Sherman, the largest giant sequoia on earth.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2021
  • As the planet heats up, scientists are learning that giant sequoias can, in fact, be killed by bark beetles.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • The Mariposa Grove is one of the most popular destinations at Yosemite and is home to more than 500 mature giant sequoia trees.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2022
  • The Mariposa Grove, featuring giant sequoia trees, is closing at 7 p.m., the park service said.
    Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • For Valentina Slobodenyuk, what was left behind was a view of the sea that had been blocked by the giant sequoia and ginkgo biloba that Mr. Ivanishvili took away for his park.
    New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Land managers at the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks watched thousands of giant sequoia burn up in wildfire last year.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021

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