How to Use larch in a Sentence
larch
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The idol stands at over 17 feet high, and is made out of larch wood.
— Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2018 -
In a windy week, a lot of larch in the valley were losing their thorns.
— Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023 -
Grey clouds softened the outlines of the larch trees above the French Alpine village.
— The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019 -
The wormlike larvae of the larch sawfly stripped almost all the adult trees of their needles in the mid to late 1990s.
— Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017 -
The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding.
— Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019 -
Right now, the region’s larch trees are a blanket of yellow and gold leaves.
— Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Snetsinger will monitor the larch’s progress over the coming decades.
— Brendan Borrell, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2011 -
The plane rumbled upward, climbing above a horizon of larch and pine, and lakes the color of mud.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 -
Next to Suchomimus, Huber and his team buried baskets of ferns and planted larch trees.
— Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018 -
Given the speed with which larch logs rot and warp, the researchers determined that the idol was fashioned from a tree that had just been cut.
— New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021 -
The charcoal came from conifers such as spruce, larch and pine, suggesting that trees still grew in the harsh, frozen environment.
— New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020 -
Even the larch wood planks of their coffins must have been imported to the treeless desert region from hundreds of kilometers away.
— Byandrew Curry, science.org, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Figaro had already mastered larch wood and a bamboo twig.
— James Gorman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2016 -
How to hike in the Alpine Lakes wilderness and potentially see some larch trees chancing colors.
— oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022 -
The east side of the park is dominated by aspens, and the west side features the western larch, a conifer exclusive to the Inland Northwest.
— Justin Franz, Houston Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2019 -
The building is made with cross-laminated timber (CLT) and larch.
— Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024 -
In contrast, the Russian sediment cores contained pollen from trees such as larch, spruce, fir and hemlock.
— Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020 -
Fingers of logging road extend up the Rockies and Selkirks to wilderness, cathedrals of birch, hemlock, cedar, larch.
— Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022 -
The east side of the park is dominated by aspens, while the west side features the western larch, a conifer exclusive to the Inland Northwest.
— Justin Franz, The Know, 1 Sep. 2019 -
The trend to mix wood can be see here with hickory flooring, white oak counters, and faux beams made of fir and larch under a vaulted, tongue-and-groove ceiling.
— oregonlive, 17 May 2022 -
Built by Atelier Kunc, the saddle-roof structure is built from a charred larch that gives the facade a perfectly imperfect look.
— Liz Stinson, Curbed, 25 May 2018 -
The last color change is when the larch trees (a deciduous conifer that loses its needles) turn gold in mid-October.
— Bridget Hallinan, CNT, 25 Sep. 2017 -
Sea amber, larch, and organic oat sugars are a few of the magical elements blended to help heal the skin.
— Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022 -
Meanwhile, the angular exterior is clad in Siberian larch that can be charred to get that on-trend black timber look.
— Liz Stinson, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2018 -
The decor sees local larch, oak and slate paired with custom wood furniture and natural fabrics that create the warmth and comfort of a cabin or chalet.
— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2022 -
Pack a tent, download an offline map, and set out from the town of Khuzhir for the two-day, 50-mile round-trip trek through larch woodlands and along empty beaches to Cape Khoboy, on the island’s northeastern tip.
— The Editors, Outside Online, 18 June 2021 -
The best time for viewing seasonal color is fall, when the larch trees—the only coniferous trees to lose their needles in winter—turn yellow.
— National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019 -
Herzschuh found that certain larch species did not shift northward as the planet warmed after the last ice age, despite preferring a colder climate.
— Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 10 Dec. 2019 -
Recently, the park’s grasslands have been shown to reflect more sunlight than the surrounding larch forest, which will reduce the heat penetrating the ground.
— Paul Mann, Smithsonian, 14 May 2018 -
In the center, a rectangular shelter covered in dark larch wood hovers on four slender iron columns.
— Max Norman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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