How to Use fireweed in a Sentence

fireweed

noun
  • By midsummer, though, shoots of lupine and fireweed were peeking through the ground.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • It's been an age-old adage among many fishermen that when the fireweed top out, the silver salmon are hitting their peak.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 July 2017
  • Right now, the fireweed on our property has ended its purple display.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Nearly every tree had been stripped from the land by the time of the park’s founding, carted away for lumber or fireweed.
    — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
  • Meanwhile mountain bouquets of aster, fireweed, lupine and glacier lily enthrall at every turn.
    — Hotel Bellwether, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2017
  • These are poems of saplings, sorrel, peregrine falcons, fox, fireweed, rhubarb, sourdock, and ice.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • The pair hiked up to Harding Glacier, watched black bears play in a field of pink fireweed, and made a fire by the sea on a warm evening.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Fast-growing fireweed and other flowers cover recent burn scars.
    — Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Yellow aspen lit up the valley, dotted with blazing late-season fireweed.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Off in the distance, past the fireweed and haphazard wildflowers, bright flashes of white caught the sunlight.
    — Hillary Richard, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • Gregus spied on this polar bear cub playing in a patch of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Researchers are trying to gain insights into what might happen to arctic-alpine plants like those seen on the high mountain slopes, such as forget-me-nots and fireweed.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Can someone who might have scientific knowledge of the subject please proffer a theory about what is going on with the fireweed this season?
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 July 2017
  • Observe these majestic creatures from a safe range, and photograph their white coats against the magenta fireweed that blankets the tundra each summer.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • In the years following World War II, single-family homes spread across the nation like fireweed.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • This polar bear cub was playing in a mass of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Her peonies prematurely finished their cycle, the summer lilies are flowering and the fireweed is nearly finished blooming.
    — Author: Lauren Ellenbecker, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2019
  • The forest floor was nearly bare, except for clumps of charcoal and a few short stems of bracken fern and fireweed, a hot pink flower whose seeds often blow in and germinate just after a conflagration.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Alpine meadows burst with blossoms and colors including yellow rhododendron, purple mountain heather, pink azaleas, fuchsia fireweeds, and the white stars of the eschscholtz starwort.
    — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The dishes often include unique ingredients Anna and Byron have foraged from their land — things like fireweed shoots, spruce tips and woodland violets.
    — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • In Yao’s second piece, The impossibility of being outside, fireweed—an invasive flowering plant—is allowed to proliferate.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2019

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