Example sentences for: pine

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

  • The descendants of the sourdoughs (four of whom, early this century, first one of Mount McKinley's two 20,000-foot peaks, dragging with them a pine pole, an oversized American flag, and a bag of stale doughnuts) are, of course, less refined in their sensibilities.

  • Much more lush than many of the other islands in the Bahamas, this hilly, 3-mile- (5-km-) long cay is covered with pine woodland that camouflages many of its houses and resorts.

  • Thus, distinguishing epithets like colonial, native, wild, black, brown, green , and gray qualify names of common Old World species like apple, ash, oak , and pine to build a considerable and understandable vocabulary.

  • off Cape Cod, you scan the pre-dawn pine forest with a high-tech microphone to solve a bioacoustic mystery: Why this island's chickadees sing a different song from all other chickadees in the U.S. !

  • The north coast road makes an enjoyable excursion along the dunes and pine groves lining the Gulf of Asinara.


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