Example sentences for: redwoods

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

  • Although he has been implicated in cutting California redwoods and in the collapse of a huge Texas S&L, Hurwitz was not involved in the siege of Stalingrad but probably wishes he had been.

  • --President Clinton, not discontent with a $480 million plan to protect giant redwoods from giant lumber companies.

  • (The report was first discussed last week in the Washington Post , which today runs a story on it inside, as does the New York Times .) The top non-local story at the WP is the consummation of the long-awaited deal by which the federal government and the state of California have agreed to pay a lumber company $480 million to preserve Northern California's Headwaters Forest, which had been the largest stand of ancient redwoods in private hands.

  • But it's worth mentioning a separate reason to be skeptical of the conservationist agenda: For all we know, those descendants might prefer inheriting the proceeds of economic development to inheriting the redwoods.)

  • If some moral principle allows the tax collector to confiscate 40 percent of Gates' income, that same moral principle should allow the unemployed lumberjacks of Oregon to confiscate your rich grandchildren's view of the giant redwoods.


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