How to Use pine in a Sentence

pine

1 of 2 noun

• Dead pines, firs, and cedars stretch as far as the eye can see.
  — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• West of the city, the tops of rows of 6-foot pines tilt to the northeast, pointing to Idalia’s path.
  — James Call, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• First come the plants: the Baishan fir and the Qiaojia pine, the coral tree and the suicide palm.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• There aren’t as many pine trees and oaks around here as there used to be.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• On Montgomery Road, the top half of a large pine tree was snapped off like a twig.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Nearby, pink flagging in the pine marked where the new A.T. would soon go.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• The pine trees catch a lot of snow around the branches, but not much at the base, leaving it less dense.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most of the floors and some of the furniture were made out of age-old reclaimed pine.
  — Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
• Mature pine trees mark the stone entrance of the brick driveway that arches around the front of the house.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• He was cremated back in March and is housed in a small pine box.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The ancient pine and birch forests were turned into seas of open heath.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Expect sand in place of snow and palms instead of pines on this coastal drive.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• But there were charges toward the top of the leaderboard playing out elsewhere among the pines.
  — Alan Blinder Doug Mills, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• See me over there by the couple drowning in each other on the bench under the pine tree?
  — Jim Moore, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
• For example, the Texas scent has notes of pine, leather, cedarwood, and more.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2023
• Again, way more pine than citrus, though there is a hint of pineapple.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
• In one photo, the fireplace mantle is lit up with twinkly lights and a thick swath of pine boughs.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• Gentle hills, pine and maple trees, old barns, stone walls.
  — Cara Blue Adams, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The glint of a reptilian eye came from a grove of Australian pine below.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The state park is home to pine and oak woodlands as well as creeks and inviting meadows.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• The treehouse sits between two pine trees on 86 acres in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
  — Cari Shane, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
• The smaller of the two bedrooms is walled off from the main living space by a series of raw pine shelves filled with books.
  — Eviana Hartman Dean Kaufman Colin King, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• The views from my car window are a Nordic cliché: long stretches of farmland that give way to thick forests of birch and pine.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
• Unlike most of the old-growth pines, it was not chopped for lumber after its resin was tapped.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Less known are the effects of the tropical storm on the park’s Bristlecone pines, which are among the oldest trees on Earth.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• In front is a small pine tree that is covered in these larvae that are eating the branches.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
• In the dining room, meanwhile, the walls are accented with pieces of the Cove’s old Dade County pine.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• Breaks in the clouds created roving patches of sunlight that lit up the frosty ground and cast long shadows from the towering pine trees.
  — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• The branches of the pine tree in the above photo appear blurry and pixelated, while the colors seem artificially bright.
  — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024

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pine

2 of 2 verb

• But mostly the judges pine to learn who is behind the visages.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• To pine for it is to be whipsawed between hope and despair.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• Even those who bought iPhone 11 models last year might pine for these new ones.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• The goal is to help prime and fuel our team members who pine for more in their careers.
  — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The latter still has a cult following, and many still pine for EA to bring the franchise back.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Lastly, using the Love Oil, drench the ponytail and start to wrap the bun pining into place.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 27 Feb. 2023
• The hotel is built around the garden, making this hotel one of the few places where guests pine for a suite facing away from the city.
  — Kristen Shirley, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2021
• This is the kind of fresh glou glou natural wine fans pine for — grapey and with an energy that tickles the palate.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
• The wreath was still on the door and outside the January wind was corralling tinsel and pine needles into storm drains.
  — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Written mostly by and for outsiders, their heroes tend to pine for escape.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Woven through its solid malt base are hints of raspberry, freshly tilled soil and pine sap.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• And yet, after careers spent climbing the corporate ladder, many C.E.O.s can’t help but pine for the office, too.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The Prince Edward-Gallion parkland, home to pine and hardwood trees, is Virginia's first state forest.
  — Joe Studley, NBC News, 23 May 2022
• As the human workers pine for home, the humanoid workers increasingly pine to be more than what they’ve been programmed to be.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• In a cruel twist of fate, their characters continued to pine for each other on the show for another two years.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 6 Feb. 2018
• The coffin was draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and a wreath of flowers picked from the Balmoral estate, which included dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather, and pine fir.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2022
• Yet some fans still pine for Stevens to return his focus to the U.S. map—and presumably also to the emo-kitsch Americana sound of his earlier years.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
• The signs that Trump may pine for a return to the simpler days of hosting reality TV and stalking beauty pageants have perhaps been there all along.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
• The forest is almost all secondary, spindly pine and spruce less than a century old, reclaimed from the era when the island, like much of Maine, like much of the Northeast, was field and meadow.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• That alone has caused tension, as some residents pine for more local control.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2022
• Hardcore Isbell fans pine for his Drive-By Truckers classics.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2022
• Ndegeocello, 49, may pine for her teen years, but any nostalgia is filtered on her new album through the prism of age and wisdom.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
• This week, there’s a new product for pickup enthusiasts to pine after.
  — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• Fans also pine for life on the Duttons’ sprawling, picturesque spread, where anybody who’s willing to work can become part of the family.
  — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• The straightforward trail follows along the creek for about 2 miles, with aspen and pine providing cover and wildflowers popping at about a mile in.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• They were also said to pine for the stimulation of a human audience for their party tricks that include mimicry.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
• The dispersal of nuclear know-how in recent decades has led many observers to pine for the relative stability of the Cold War.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
• Eco-warriors seem to pine only for solar panels, carbon sinks and bird-slicing wind turbines.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 27 June 2021
• As much as Tottenham fans may pine for their Argentinian former coach, that is now water under the bridge.
  — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• As the summer begins — but not summer camps — families cooped up at home for three months are beginning to pine for vacations.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2020

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