How to Use Norway spruce in a Sentence

Norway spruce

noun
  • Norway spruce and white pines are the best.
    — Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Williams, as a tree, is more of a Norway spruce than a Charlie Brown.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Pre-dug and balled include white pine, Norway spruce and Colorado blue spruce.
    — The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Pre-dug and balled include white pine, Norway spruce, and Colorado blue spruce.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Nov. 2025
  • This Norway spruce's branches are molded from real trees and are said to be crush-resistant.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
  • One even hid in the lower branches of my Norway spruce tree while singing and interjecting the sound which gave it its name.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • The 68-foot Norway spruce is now one of the largest Christmas trees in city history.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The farm has six varieties to choose from blue spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, Cannan fir and white fir.
    — Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The lighting ceremony for the Norway spruce will take place tomorrow.
    — Tom Winter, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In a grove of Norway spruce not far from the cabin, a ruffed grouse exploded from a branch directly overhead and gave everyone a start.
    — Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, the wood from a Norway spruce is a great material for flooring, furniture, and cabinetry.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • My 2-year-old daughter’s howls of protest echoed through the previously silent forest of towering Norway spruce.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Norway spruce stands at 75 feet tall and measures 45 feet in diameter and weighs 11 tons.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This year's tree is an 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) Norway spruce from Queensbury, New York.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Currently offering several types of cut-your-own trees, including eastern white pine, Norway spruce and Fraser fir.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Researchers have unveiled this connection between microbes in Norway spruce needles and gold nanoparticles that travel from soil, likely near deposits.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • If this Norway spruce looks extremely realistic, that's because the artisans at Terrain modeled it after a real, live tree.
    — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Balsam fir, concolor fir, cork bark fir, Fraser fir, Korean fir, Austrian pine, scotch pine, white pine, black hills spruce, blue spruce, Norway spruce and white spruce.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The 68-foot Norway spruce was donated by the Mason family in Glenview, and is the largest Christmas tree in the city's history.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • As a result, their response to heat stress is easier to study than that of other fir trees like the Norway spruce, which typically grows in colder regions across northern, central, and eastern Europe.
    — Hahna Yoon, National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Specifically, Quincy is looking for Norway spruce, blue spruce, or other evergreen species that are between 25 and 45 feet tall and in good condition.
    — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Outside, a towering 55-foot-tall Norway spruce stands on the front lawn, surrounded by 26 illuminated evergreens.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • By their calculations, the synchronization area is about twice that of Norway spruce, which mast over only about 1,000 kilometers and are much less tightly correlated in time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2024
  • Norway spruce trees accumulate gold nanoparticles by utilizing their resident, symbiotic bacteria, known as endophytes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Here, Robert Moor embarks on an odyssey into the vivid science of overstory and root systems, roaming among ancient Norway spruces, petite bonsais, and the Panamanian choibá, which evolved to attract lightning.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Though tree sizes have varied over the years, the traditional Rockefeller Center tree is usually an elderly Norway spruce at least 75 feet tall and 45 feet wide, according to the center’s website.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • After the Norway spruce absorbs soluble gold from the soil via its roots, the resident endophytic bacteria within the tree’s tissues take action, initiating the segregation and solidification of the gold.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Five years after Dan died at 32 years old, Judy decided to make their lifelong dream of getting the 75-foot-tall Norway spruce outside their home in upstate New York to the front of Rockefeller Center come true.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025

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