Example sentences for: spruce

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

  • Turn west at Parksville to cross the island on Highway 4. This takes you through some of the province’s finest forestland: the red cedar of canoes, totem poles and longhouses; stately Douglas fir, mainstay of white man’s bridges, boats, houses, and flagstaffs; and the good old Sitka spruce Christmas tree.

  • Here, one may observe the opposite happening: when people wish to spruce up an old word, they add a syllable.

  • Its forest of majestic Douglas firs, cedars, and Sitka spruce remind us it was once a government reserve providing mast and spar timbers for the Royal Navy.

  • (3) Names of trees, presumably to memorialize those that the developer has just caused to be chopped down: Maple, Birch, Walnut, Sycamore, Ash, Beech, Spruce and Locust Street/Roads/Avenue/Lane .

  • The spruce, fir, and cedar provide three-quarters of Canada’s construction lumber and considerable quantities of wood pulp and paper.


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