How to Use fir in a Sentence

fir

noun

• So the fir, the U.S. was the first party to breach the deal.
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The ceilings are tongue-in-groove pine, stained to blend with the fir.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2020
• Walk into the fields to choose among spruces and firs, priced from $25 to $35.
  — courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• The pine, cedar, fir and oak trees are piles of pickup sticks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Two logging trucks, lined nose-to-tail, moved the huge fir.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• That helped my mind map the image: a small church, fir trees.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• That part of the road curved around the fir, cutting so close that the cars drove right over its roots.
  — Ruth Ozeki, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• It’s made from fir wood, with a handsome grain stained in a deep, rich brown.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• The area is covered in Jeffrey pine, sage, and fir trees.
  — Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2022
• Is there an insect in the Doug fir that could be doing this?
  — oregonlive.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• The fir gets cut down in young adulthood to be a Christmas tree in a well-to-do house in town.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• The fir and sequoia look tall enough so that would give you all sorts of room if pruned 50% or less.
  — oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2020
• The fir beams and white V-match plank ceiling make the main living space feel homey.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• The ecosystem with trees like spruce, pine, and fir makes up about one-third of all forests on the planet.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 1 July 2023
• If a fir tree is felled too early, the needles fall off.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
• Cedar and pine boughs are common enough in many places, but fir boughs make the softest bed.
  — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• Mom, put down the axe!), but all will be forgiven by the time that one-of-a-kind fir finds its way home.
  — Chloe Gorman, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
• In Spokane last week, a thick, gray fog draped the sky, obscuring the view of Mount Spokane and the fir trees that dot the skyline here.
  — Jim Carlton and Nour Malas, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
• This ecosystem — with trees like spruce, pine, and fir — make up about one-third of all forests on the planet.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
• Star Wars fans can show off their love fir the famous franchise with a themed mug.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 30 Sep. 2022
• Steps lead up to the enormous living room, where the fir plank ceiling peaks at 12 feet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• And this is the firs time a planet has been found around a star like this, according to the researchers.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• The powdered rosin is extracted from the sap of fir trees and is sticky in nature.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2021
• The birds are said to be coming south because of a poor cone crop on spruce and fir trees in Canada.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Signs of progress include fir and spruce sprouting this summer along the creek.
  — Tammy Webber and Martha Irvine, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
• Rather, workers will remove pine, fir and cedar trees in some places.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
• The wreath includes dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather, and pine fir, all picked from the Balmoral Estate.
  — Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
• To the north, moose, caribou, and black bears pick their way through spruce-fir forest and mossy tundra.
  — Outside Online, 25 July 2022
• 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
• Visitors can find aspen, pine and fir trees in its sky islands.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024