How to Use red cedar in a Sentence

red cedar

noun
  • These include rooms of yellow pine, white pine, red fir and red cedar.
    — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2025
  • My 30-year-old, healthy red cedar is being gnawed on at night.
    — oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Complete with a red cedar finish, this playset is well worth the price.
    — Samantha De Leon, Chron, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Thin strips of Western red cedar are perfect, but don’t cut a tree.
    — Ellen Bass, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The exterior has red cedar siding, with cedar front steps and deck.
    — Lisa McLean, baltimoresun.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The red cedar provides respite for a rare wintering bird called the northern saw-whet owl.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The poles are made of red cedar and the carvings of eagles and ravens represent clans of the area.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • White cedars have short needles in dense clusters, while eastern red cedars have flatter leaves.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The home's exterior is finished in red cedar and topped by a metal roof.
    — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • In eastern red cedar, the female cones are just a quarter-inch long and dark blue with a gin-like fragrance.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And the property’s three structures are wrapped in red cedar with a metal fascia.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The red cedar is also naturally thermal, which helps the sauna stay nice and steamy.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The center section, which is the main living space, is faced with Western red cedar.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • Made of Western red cedar, these handmade dice are good for outdoor and indoor decor alike.
    — Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The woodsy fragrance has a gentle lavender scent mixed with bergamot, green oak, rosemary, and red cedar.
    — Shea Simmons, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The panel at the back of the cab has his logo and is striped with pignut hickory, red cedar, cypress and white oak.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The red cedar changes with time; south- and west-facing walls have an orange glow, while the north-facing walls are a darker gray.
    — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Haida women wove traditional hats and capes from red cedar to outfit the cast.
    — Julian Brave Noisecat, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Western red cedar is the wood most often used, but maple, hickory, and alder are also common.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Our flames destroyed the young Eastern red cedars that threatened to turn prairie into woodland.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 29 Feb. 2024
  • It's finished in red cedar with a metal roof and gets power from a standard RV-style hookup.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The next most popular wood-decking options are redwood and Western red cedar.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2020
  • Larger trees offered were eastern red cedar, Serbian spruce, red maple and English oak.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • One of my favorite ridge-end bedding setups has to be accessed by scaling a steep hillside covered by a thicket of red cedar.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2021
  • For winter romance, take advantage of the hotel's outdoor red cedar saunas for a deeply relaxing detox.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Tree varieties native to the county include red maple, tulip poplar, white oak, black walnut, eastern red cedar and redbud.
    — Staff Report, The Aegis, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Crafted from red cedar logs and anchored by a double-height great room with a wall of glass, the home directly overlooks the lake and mountains beyond.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The Western saw-whet owl likes a twelve-year-old thicket of fir and ponderosa pine; deer find soft green bites in a four-year-old stand of red cedar and white pine.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Styled in a barrel shape, this 6-foot long outdoor red cedar sauna is designed to provide the most amount of usable interior space.
    — Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2020
  • If the fire clears out some of that overgrowth and the eastern red cedar, the prairie grass and forb species will regenerate in those areas, restoring wildlife habitat.
    — Karen Hickman, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024

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