How to Use aspen in a Sentence

aspen

noun
  • Large aspens crowd around, each leaf like a droplet of sunshine.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • My pace slowed as my senses focused on the aspens around me.
    — Jim Tschetter, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The only sound was the wind rustling the leaves of the aspens nearby.
    — Cheryl Strayed, Vogue, 17 July 2018
  • Razor-sharp axes and saws of all sorts slice through logs of aspen.
    — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Find wood from spruce, aspen, birch, willow, or pine trees for kindling.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The lip of the canyon gave way to a gently dropping swale of lush grass, aspens, and large oak trees.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The light shimmered off the aspen leaves like God’s own disco ball.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Do not carve into aspen trees or build structures in the forest.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Find yellow aspen and birch along the shoreline and red maples inland.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • There are historic buildings on parts of the trail and groves of aspen trees throughout.
    — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Fall colors are abundant from the aspen, maple and oak trees that line the landscape.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Now there were steep mountains with red cliffs visible through the aspens.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There are four switchbacks on the final mile of the drive to the trailhead with lots of aspen to see.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 3 June 2024
  • Deer, bears and rabbits lived among the pines and aspens, and eagles soared above, hunting for prey.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Colorado is known for its aspens, and even has a pretty famous town named after the tree.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In a few weeks, the aspen leaf miners will turn many of those leaves into silver potato chips.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
  • Back on 260, the road continues to climb through dense groves of aspen and pine.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Claw marks score the aspens at heights above my head, tufts of fur from the enormous bears who left them snagged by the peeling bark.
    — Cassidy Randall, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Woodcock can also be found mixed in with ruffed grouse in aspen stands and thickets of dogwood and hawthorn.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Outside, the wind was lifting through the fields, turning up the silvery leaves on the aspens.
    — David Means, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • One aspen, about 30 yards distant, was waving.
    — William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
  • At 6-foot-5, Uiagalelei fills the pocket like an oak in a grove of aspen.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In every direction the aspens were dead.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
    — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And the when the aspens turn in autumn, the slopes are absolutely golden.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • In autumn, crowds thin and elk herds swell and bugle amongst the sunset-hues of the aspen and cottonwood trees.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Sometimes the aspen leaves are blooming or changing color.
    — Shauna Farnell, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
  • After breakfast, Gent led us up the hill from the creek past a grove of aspens to sit and talk about our intentions.
    — Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The place to watch is the vicinity of Fallen Leaf Lake and its aspens.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019

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