How to Use white cedar in a Sentence

white cedar

noun
  • The oak leaf at the top and acorns here and there are fashioned from red and white cedar.
    — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The eastern white cedar has fan-like branches with scaly flat, soft, leaves.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The swamp encompasses stands of white cedar as well as black ash.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Find the very best grub—a clear cut, white cedar swamp, standing corn, or a food plot—and camp out.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The notes range from ginger to orris root, white cedar and vetiver.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • Then come the cutting and hauling of greenheart for the keel and white cedar for the ribs, and the construction, right on the beach.
    — Zuzana Prochazka, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The products are packed in a keepsake Michigan white cedar box produced in the family's wood shop.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The white cedar design comes complete with a wooden base and a delicate dusting of snow sprinkled along the branches.
    — Nicol Natale, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Food sources to focus on include beggar’s lice, dogwood, greenbriar, hemlock, white cedar, and many more.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The busy feeders in the rear of our yard are about 10 feet from a medium-sized white cedar tree, well used, and a honeysuckle thicket.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • On the palate, notes of fresh tobacco, tart citrus and white cedar are accompanied by a remarkable silken mouthfeel.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At the base, the EDP is balanced by woody and earthy notes of white cedar, musk, vetiver and ambrox super.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The eastern white cedar, very rare in the wild in Illinois but often planted in neighborhoods, is in the cypress family.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The mosquitoes are found primarily in swampy areas — specifically, red maple or white cedar swamps and wetlands.
    — NBC News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Traditionally, Cape Cods were clad with shingles of white cedar, which stood up well to the salt air and took on a silvery patina over time.
    — Jeffrey Bauman, ELLE Decor, 15 July 2022
  • Avoid slow-growers like Brazilian mahogany, Canadian white cedar, cherry, maple and oak, which take decades to mature.
    — Scott Kirkwood, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The faceted exterior, shingled in white cedar and faded by wind and rain to the color of polished pewter, is built in a concave bend around a circular gravel driveway.
    — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The ceremonial fire, circled by cedar boughs, opened to the east where guests entered to offer prayer by sprinkling tobacco, sage, white cedar and sweetgrass to be burned.
    — Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • His efforts have brought attention to the declining supply of Atlantic white cedar trees in Nipmuc territory.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hanging from his rope 60 feet above, Roppolo says the nest at Reforestation Camp is freshened with white cedar and hemlock boughs.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
  • Its top notes are white frangipani and incense smoke; the middle notes bring together tiare flower, ylang ylang essential oil, and sandalwood; and the base notes combine white cedar essential oil and white musk.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 12 Sep. 2019
  • All of the wooden pieces are hand-crafted from eastern white cedar, and the structure is capped off with a metal shingle roof that gives the sauna a great standalone presence as well as some extra protection from the elements.
    — Dean Stattmann, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • At a glance, the striking, multi-winged home is almost Scandinavian in its appearance, thanks to the slender planks of untreated white cedar that line the exterior.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The three-story wall between the patio and the new staircase inside consists of 23-foot-high channel glass by Bendheim Wall Systems and panels of white cedar.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Where Sendak’s wild things were fierce, lumbering beasts, the house, dressed in long, pale panels of local white cedar, is spry and lithe, imbued with the same anarchic, leaping energy as Max, the book’s boy king.
    — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The 35 bedrooms have white cedar-wood furniture and blue and green textiles woven by artisans in Oaxaca, as well as indoor-outdoor rain showers and, in some cases, hammocks.
    — Nili Blanck, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Kimberly Richards, who lives in Friendship, Maine, is married to a third-generation lobsterman and paints white cedar buoys in custom color combinations.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The beautiful smell of Marriott’s signature scent is both inspiring and mysterious, blended with top notes of cassis, sparkling Fuji apple, grapefruit, cyclamen, paired with the subtle notes of pink jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, mountain sage, white cedar, and pale musk.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Fueled in part by a popular crime novel, Seicho Matsumoto’s Tower of Wave, distraught teens and other troubled souls straggle through the 7,680-acre confusion of pine, boxwood and white cedar.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017

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