Example sentences for: firs

How can you use “firs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Highway 4 follows the lake shore to Cathedral Grove, a formidable stand of Douglas firs in MacMillan Provincial Park, donated to the public by a paper manufacturer as a gesture for government permission to exploit less accessible parts of the forest.

  • The forests offer a gorgeous array of dogwoods, sugar pines, and white and red firs, and a rich flora of orange leopard lily, lupine, bracken fern, chinquapin, and white corn lily.

  • In Washington's Wind River Forest, you float above ancient firs and hemlocks in a construction crane gondola 20 stories high.

  • Many of the firs, up to 76 m (230 ft) high, are more than 300 years old, the most ancient dating back to the 12th century.

  • With a view of the ocean from a setting of tall Douglas firs and red cedars among boulders, and the occasional swift mountain stream, the elegant or rustic houses enjoy a civilized microcosm of the classical B.C. landscape.


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