How to Use conifer in a Sentence

conifer

noun

• Relatives of conifers, Jaramillo says, were the most common tall-growing trees when T. rex was alive.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• Conifers, maples and ferns line the edges of the pond and stream.
  — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• The conifer was the one that led Dr. Dalling to rummage through the brush in the first place.
  — Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The conifers are starting to inch out their first growth of the year.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Apr. 2020
• The canyon sides were steep and sandy; the sun was hot and the wind was bending the tall conifers.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2023
• The future: The timeline for mixed conifer forests is for trees to grow less than a foot per year.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• Rugged scenery shifts from drift ice and mountain peaks to sparkling lakes and old-growth conifer forests.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
• The conifer is not a pine — purists prefer to call it Wollemia — and is named for the park where it was found, , pronounced .
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• The fires spurred the production of conifer cones, which had not happened since 2015.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• Tall thin trunks, with bushy conifer crowns right at eye level.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
• Then, the basin was home to prairie-like grasslands, stands of conifer trees and a large body of water known as Lake Otero.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The fire's main fuel sources were brush, ponderosa pine and mixed conifer, the site stated.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Those large conifers may take up soil water at the expense of the golden chain tree.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020
• This must-have seemed like a bargain at three or four times the price per cubic foot of most conifers.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 13 July 2019
• Narrow in growth habit, this dense green conifer would be ideal for a tight space.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
• And that's something that's affected the war in a lot of ways, is these big, thick conifer forests full of pines, cedar, and firs.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2021
• There were snow covered conifers and robins singing into the cloudless sky.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• The fruit of the juniper plant, a conifer, is a type of tiny cone that is similar to a pinecone, according to DNR.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2021
• Most mushrooms like shady areas, but chanterelles like sun in conifer forests.
  — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 18 July 2019
• Meanwhile, the pine trees are full of red crossbills, eating conifer seeds.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Above grew conifer trees, ferns, ancient herbs and horsetail plants.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• There were pianos in the rhododendrons, pianos in the conifers and pianos in the redwoods.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• The fire continues to burn through mixed conifer with timber litter and dead and down trees.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2019
• She was released in a conifer forest in upstate New York.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2020
• Share [Findings] The world’s oldest bamboo fossil turned out to be a conifer.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• The fire is burning through high desert forest of mixed conifer trees and shrubby grasslands.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2021
• These are the very places where willow, alder and, in time, conifer forests should establish themselves.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• Maybe miles and miles of dark, densely packed straight-as-a-rod conifers scared them (the Black Forest name really fits).
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Nov. 2019
• Cleared of flammable conifers, the fireguards are designed to stop advancing fires from spreading beyond them.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024