How to Use white pine in a Sentence

white pine

noun
  • Much of the trail winds past huge white pines and pitch pine.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 June 2019
  • Norway spruce and white pines are the best.
    — Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2025
  • These include rooms of yellow pine, white pine, red fir and red cedar.
    — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2025
  • In its place, a scrubby forest of short oaks and white pines has come up.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • It's known for the distinctive lone white pine that stands out on top of the rock.
    — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2018
  • These holes are filled with square pegs of white pine and new calks driven into the wood.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
  • Wispy white pines took over the hillsides, crammed tightly next to each other.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Dieterle says the floors will be dark wood; the pews and altar will be white pine.
    — Lynn Ischay, cleveland.com, 22 June 2019
  • The seedlings include red pine, white pine, jack pine and oak as well as maple, balsam fir and spruce.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2021
  • While pines don’t hold up as long as firs in wreaths and garlands, the white pine is at least a close second.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The island is tiny, a half acre with a gigantic white pine tree at the center.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • These knolls support forests of beech, maple and oak, as well as a gorgeous strain of native white pine.
    — Kristan Schiller, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Body is made of white pine, upholstered in foam and quilted fabric.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 June 2019
  • The surplus year has brought more maple seedlings and white pine cones too, Agostini said.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
  • There was a white pine in a weeping formation; a pine with needles that were curly rather than straight.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In centuries-old white pines that covered the hillsides, settlers saw roof beams and ships' masts.
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Choose from Fraser fir, Canaan Fir, Scotch pine and white pine.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2020
  • One of the most prolific colonizers of farm fields is white pine.
    — Stephen Long, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The fruit was thought to harbor a tree-damaging disease called white pine blister rust.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Sawmill is located on three acres of outdoor space with huge white pine trees, picnic tables and a fire ring.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2021
  • The white pines are huge with much of their boughs high up leaving a skeleton of a trunk and branches underneath.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Scotch pine gets knotty, so may have some curve to the stem, and the boughs of white pine aren’t quite as stiff as some of their counterparts.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Fire tolerant red and white pines gave way to fire intolerant aspen, birch and fir trees.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Their graves, former settlements and dancing sites can still be found among the stands of sugar maple, oak, birch and white pine.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The house was partially framed, with Eastern white pine outlining the shape of the rooms.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Along the route, celebrants are planting white pines, a symbol of peace to the Haudenosaunee.
    — JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The exterior of the house will be trimmed in white pine garlands and lights, along with wreaths made from a mix of evergreens and berries.
    — Melissa Feldman, ELLE Decor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The biggest drawback of white pine as a Christmas tree is that the needles are quite delicate.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Dec. 2017

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