How to Use Douglas fir in a Sentence

Douglas fir

noun
  • Same old Douglas fir charm with a little more pizazz.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Same old Douglas fir charm with a little more pizazz.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Same old Douglas fir charm with a little more pizazz.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025
  • That’s poison oak growing up a Douglas fir tree.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • Banks revealed that the most popular trees are the Douglas fir and the blue spruce.
    — Eric Noll, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • By one estimate, just 3% of the park’s Douglas fir trees remain.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the open kitchen, for example, azure tiles and plain-sawn Douglas fir cabinetry nod to surf and turf.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2026
  • The steel and glass accents give the home a contemporary feel, while Douglas fir cladding adds a touch of warmth.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But most are second-and-third growth trees, mixed in with Douglas fir and other species, Hodder said.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Still, the forest is mostly green again, after vast stands of Douglas fir and tan oak were reduced to charred trunks and ash.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Shady’s trees are largely Douglas fir, redwoods, tanoaks and bay (laurel) with a few maples and black oaks scattered about.
    — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • Designed by Studio Terpeluk, the walls are clad in light gray Douglas fir.
    — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Muir blends Douglas fir tree needles and stems with vodka and then adds syrup made from dark wildflower honey and sage leaves.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Scented with Douglas fir, eucalyptus, pine, and cedar, this choice has a rustic, homey feel to it.
    — Jamie Fischer, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The report also recorded 3 million dead Douglas fir trees, not a true fir species, despite the name.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2023
  • There's nothing more tiring or messy than lugging a nine-foot Douglas fir into the house on a freezing winter day.
    — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Albert is a Douglas fir tree whose hope and dream is to become the most famous Christmas tree in his hometown.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Miles of rolling vineyards bump up against thick Douglas fir forests, crisscrossed with quiet backroads and dotted with down-to-earth towns.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Albert is a Douglas fir tree whose hope and dream is to become his hometown's most famous Christmas tree.
    — Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • There is some hope in the native silver fir and the Douglas fir brought over from North America.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Those forests always felt a bit eerie to me, as if some damp, unfathomable energy were running from cedar to alder to Douglas fir.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This was demonstrated in a study of paper birch and Douglas fir trees growing together in a forest.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The spine of our house was a 60-foot beam that ran the length of the basement ceiling, hand-carved from the trunk of an ancient Douglas fir.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • The trail features jagged rock formations, a perennial creek and bigcone Douglas fir.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • And that smooth, vertical-grain Douglas fir on the ceiling is another one of the room’s striking features.
    — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • More than 50 arches of Douglas fir, like a giant rib cage, were curved to accommodate the giant blimps.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
  • When times are tough, deer will also turn to coniferous species including cedar, Douglas fir, hemlock, balsam fir, and pine.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The park’s 53 tree species, including a dense Douglas fir forest, help absorb some of the ambient noise as well.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Regardless of your route, the whole way is lined with Douglas fir and lodgepole pine, sparkling alpine lakes, and the jagged peaks that gave the Sawtooths their name.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025

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