How to Use white spruce in a Sentence

white spruce

noun

• The white spruce tree is 48 feet tall and 60 years old.
  — Emily D'alessandro, CBS News, 25 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• And, boy, business is booming for white spruce right now.
  — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
• The white spruce colonists are likely warming the Arctic landscape too.
  — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The larger rivers support significant stands of white spruce.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• 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
• Birch, quaking aspen, white spruce, Sitka spruce, native trees.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
• Choose from holiday favorites like poinsettia and white spruce.
  — Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024