How to Use larch in a Sentence

larch

noun
  • The idol stands at over 17 feet high, and is made out of larch wood.
    Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Grey clouds softened the outlines of the larch trees above the French Alpine village.
    The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The wormlike larvae of the larch sawfly stripped almost all the adult trees of their needles in the mid to late 1990s.
    Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
  • The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding.
    Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
  • Right now, the region’s larch trees are a blanket of yellow and gold leaves.
    Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Snetsinger will monitor the larch’s progress over the coming decades.
    Brendan Borrell, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2011
  • The plane rumbled upward, climbing above a horizon of larch and pine, and lakes the color of mud.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Next to Suchomimus, Huber and his team buried baskets of ferns and planted larch trees.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
  • Given the speed with which larch logs rot and warp, the researchers determined that the idol was fashioned from a tree that had just been cut.
    New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The charcoal came from conifers such as spruce, larch and pine, suggesting that trees still grew in the harsh, frozen environment.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Even the larch wood planks of their coffins must have been imported to the treeless desert region from hundreds of kilometers away.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Figaro had already mastered larch wood and a bamboo twig.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2016
  • How to hike in the Alpine Lakes wilderness and potentially see some larch trees chancing colors.
    oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The east side of the park is dominated by aspens, and the west side features the western larch, a conifer exclusive to the Inland Northwest.
    Justin Franz, Houston Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In contrast, the Russian sediment cores contained pollen from trees such as larch, spruce, fir and hemlock.
    Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The east side of the park is dominated by aspens, while the west side features the western larch, a conifer exclusive to the Inland Northwest.
    Justin Franz, The Know, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The trend to mix wood can be see here with hickory flooring, white oak counters, and faux beams made of fir and larch under a vaulted, tongue-and-groove ceiling.
    oregonlive, 17 May 2022
  • Built by Atelier Kunc, the saddle-roof structure is built from a charred larch that gives the facade a perfectly imperfect look.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 25 May 2018
  • The last color change is when the larch trees (a deciduous conifer that loses its needles) turn gold in mid-October.
    Bridget Hallinan, CNT, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Sea amber, larch, and organic oat sugars are a few of the magical elements blended to help heal the skin.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, the angular exterior is clad in Siberian larch that can be charred to get that on-trend black timber look.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2018
  • The decor sees local larch, oak and slate paired with custom wood furniture and natural fabrics that create the warmth and comfort of a cabin or chalet.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Pack a tent, download an offline map, and set out from the town of Khuzhir for the two-day, 50-mile round-trip trek through larch woodlands and along empty beaches to Cape Khoboy, on the island’s northeastern tip.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 18 June 2021
  • The best time for viewing seasonal color is fall, when the larch trees—the only coniferous trees to lose their needles in winter—turn yellow.
    National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Herzschuh found that certain larch species did not shift northward as the planet warmed after the last ice age, despite preferring a colder climate.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Recently, the park’s grasslands have been shown to reflect more sunlight than the surrounding larch forest, which will reduce the heat penetrating the ground.
    Paul Mann, Smithsonian, 14 May 2018
  • In the center, a rectangular shelter covered in dark larch wood hovers on four slender iron columns.
    Max Norman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The landscape and colors change dramatically from the brown hills, shrubs and sagebrush at lower elevations to the lush greens of ponderosa pines, fir and larch trees higher up.
    Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The European strain is known to infect different types of trees than the California version, including beech and larch trees.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The ratio of two oxygen isotopes in the larch’s cellulose would give Ballantyne a temperature range.
    Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015

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