How to Use aspen in a Sentence

aspen

noun

• The only sound was the wind rustling the leaves of the aspens nearby.
  — Cheryl Strayed, Vogue, 17 July 2018
• The sun peeked through bluish-gray clouds, and the aspen leaves were a brilliant shade of gold.
  — Brad Dokken, The Know, 31 July 2019
• Back on 260, the road continues to climb through dense groves of aspen and pine.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The place to watch is the vicinity of Fallen Leaf Lake and its aspens.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• At 6-foot-5, Uiagalelei fills the pocket like an oak in a grove of aspen.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• The light shimmered off the aspen leaves like God’s own disco ball.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• Outside, the wind was lifting through the fields, turning up the silvery leaves on the aspens.
  — David Means, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Claw marks score the aspens at heights above my head, tufts of fur from the enormous bears who left them snagged by the peeling bark.
  — Cassidy Randall, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
• There are historic buildings on parts of the trail and groves of aspen trees throughout.
  — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• Razor-sharp axes and saws of all sorts slice through logs of aspen.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Deer, bears and rabbits lived among the pines and aspens, and eagles soared above, hunting for prey.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• The Mint Saloon tent is the first Big Agnes tent to feature its own custom aspen print.
  — Kassondra Cloos, Outside Online, 24 May 2017
• In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
  — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Find yellow aspen and birch along the shoreline and red maples inland.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• After breakfast, Gent led us up the hill from the creek past a grove of aspens to sit and talk about our intentions.
  — Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• And the when the aspens turn in autumn, the slopes are absolutely golden.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• The Greenstone Ridge Trail follows the high central ridge to traverse the length of the island, running through forests of maple and birch, fir and aspen.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 July 2024
• Longbed, shortbed, all kinds of cabs, two-wheel-drive, four-wheel-drive, and all-wheel-drive: the F-150's decision tree is an aspen.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2019
• From the Visitor Gateway, the 2.6-mile Acastus Trail weaves through pines and aspens.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Meadowlarks sing, and aspens quake in the afternoon breeze.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Find wood from spruce, aspen, birch, willow, or pine trees for kindling.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• Woodcock can also be found mixed in with ruffed grouse in aspen stands and thickets of dogwood and hawthorn.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• In a few weeks, the aspen leaf miners will turn many of those leaves into silver potato chips.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
• Now there were steep mountains with red cliffs visible through the aspens.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The route heads right (west) at the sign and begins with a shady walk among pines and firs, with a smattering of aspens tucked into clearings.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 18 July 2019
• For years, the rule has been to track the first turning aspens in the high Eastern Sierra in mid-September to the start of October.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• The 110-seat restaurant, like the lobby, looks as if carved out of a large aspen tree trunk with earthy tones and distressed wood slats lining the ceiling.
  — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• But the spring greens are brighter, the summer clouds puffier, and autumn hues of the aspens more colorful than ever.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Yet squeezed between is an absolute mass of young aspens.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024