How to Use giant sequoia in a Sentence

giant sequoia

noun

• The charred corpse of a giant sequoia poked into the smoky haze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• By contrast, in the past six years, four large fires burned two-thirds of the giant sequoia range.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• To stand in the shadow of a giant sequoia is to feel the heft of history drape over you.
  — Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
• One of those good burns was in the vicinity of the grove’s star, the 3,000-year-old Stagg tree, the fifth-largest giant sequoia on record.
  — Bettina Boxall, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Mariposa Grove is one of three giant sequoia groves in Yosemite.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
• Some species, such as the giant sequoia, rely on the heat of a fire to dry out and crack open their cones to release seeds across the forest floor.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• The giant sequoia is the world’s largest tree by volume and closely related to the redwood, the world’s tallest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• The giant sequoia is the world's largest tree by volume and closely related to the redwood, the world's tallest.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
• Only two other tree species in the world can live longer than the giant sequoia -- bristlecone pines and Alerce trees.
  — Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 11 July 2022
• For a little more peace with your giant sequoia gazing, head to Tuolumne Grove.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• General Sherman — the giant sequoia and one of the largest living trees in the world — is still standing.
  — Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
• The cones of certain pines, like the lodgepole and giant sequoia, open only when blasted with fire.
  — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
• Dams crested, century-old giant sequoia trees toppled, and a stretch of the Central Coast was cut off from the rest of the state.
  — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
• Per the Chronicle, among the fallen is the planet’s ninth-largest giant sequoia, nicknamed the King Arthur tree.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• Alder Creek, as the area is known, is the largest giant sequoia property that still remains in private hands.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Sep. 2019
• The two parks, which are jointly administered, are known for the giant sequoia trees.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 2 June 2021
• The giant sequoia and redwood are closely related but not the exact same kind of tree.
  — Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 11 July 2022
• That’s because giant sequoias are among the oldest living things on Earth.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
• The giant sequoia is estimated to be around 2,200 years old.
  — NBC News, 18 Dec. 2021
• There is a giant sequoia in Northeast Portland that elicits a lot of emotions.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• By the end of the year, scientists hope to have mapped the complete genome of the coast redwood and of the giant sequoia, a close cousin that also is among the tallest trees in the world, some reaching hundreds of feet high.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• In total, 28 giant sequoia groves were affected by the fires.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
• At one point, flames swept into the crown of the Bench Tree, a giant sequoia whose base serves as a popular sitting area for visitors.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
• The main concern has been the Giant Forest, which contains the General Sherman, the largest giant sequoia on earth.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2021
• The Mariposa Grove is one of the most popular destinations at Yosemite and is home to more than 500 mature giant sequoia trees.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2022
• The Mariposa Grove, featuring giant sequoia trees, is closing at 7 p.m., the park service said.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• For Valentina Slobodenyuk, what was left behind was a view of the sea that had been blocked by the giant sequoia and ginkgo biloba that Mr. Ivanishvili took away for his park.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• Land managers at the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks watched thousands of giant sequoia burn up in wildfire last year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
• One of the biggest worries has been over the fate of giant sequoia trees in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, which have been scorched by wildfires that began last month.
  — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• For giant sequoia, the picture is slightly grimmer, if far from hopeless.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024