How to Use white spruce in a Sentence
white spruce
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The white spruce tree is 48 feet tall and 60 years old.
—Emily D'alessandro, CBS News, 25 Dec. 2021
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Of the species of woods used for log homes, this one has the lightest color and is sometimes called white spruce.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2019
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Then there were the locals, the family of ravens screaming from a white spruce not far from the race start.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
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And, boy, business is booming for white spruce right now.
—WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
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The white spruce colonists are likely warming the Arctic landscape too.
—WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
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Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter color and ability to screen out the neighbors.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
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There are still plenty of jack and red pines, white spruce, red oak, black walnut and various other shrubs available.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2021
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In Alaska, for example, white spruce trees are moving into areas of tundra for the first time in thousands of years.
—Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
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The larger rivers support significant stands of white spruce.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
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Regional replanting can include up to 19 native species, from white spruce and jack pine to hemlock and Douglas fir.
—Luc Forsyth, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
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Birch, quaking aspen, white spruce, Sitka spruce, native trees.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
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Choose from holiday favorites like poinsettia and white spruce.
—Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
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In the northernmost boreal forests of Alaska, where trees and tundra meet, Griffin and his students have installed thirty-six dendrometers on white spruce trees.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
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This seemed puzzling when a porcupine’s major food was to be the inner bark of white spruce trees and the tree’s bitter needles, rich with toxins that discourage most every other animal from chewing them.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
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Currently owned by a professional landscaper, the 1.19-acre lot includes Bloodgood Japanese maples, Hinoki-cypress, Serbian white spruce, and hydrangeas.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
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