How to Use tree ring in a Sentence

tree ring

noun

• Berg found evidence of them in the record of tree rings.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Aug. 2017
• Changes in weather affect the width of each year’s tree ring.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
• Some of the tree ring experts involved in the work, on the other hand, are more convinced.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• Some take tree cores to get an insight into tree rings.
  — Tik Root, Time, 7 Oct. 2019
• Torrents of snow can knock over, bruise, or injure trees in ways that show up on tree rings.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Mar. 2018
• But that stick only goes back about 2,000 years in climate records based on tree rings.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2018
• Murphy has studied megadroughts of the past using tree rings, and those droughts have lasted up to about 30 years.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 7 June 2020
• Then Muñoz’s team checked their work against another record: tree rings.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
• The study’s tree ring record also provides a sobering view of what is possible in the West.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• That's going to give us the outermost tree ring that was ever formed.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2018
• The mud laminations, called varves, look like tree rings.
  — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• And carry this imagery straight to the earth’s core, connecting your own body to the fiery, molten layers, like so many tree rings.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2018
• Scientists can tell a lot about climate from tree rings.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2018
• The region is in the grip of a mega-drought, the worst in 1,200 years, according to researchers who have analyzed tree ring data.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• These include things like the size of annual tree rings or the ratio of oxygen isotopes found in ice.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 May 2024
• The climate data gleaned from the tree ring samples fits closely with the instrumental record over the past 100 years.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Much like an ice core or tree ring grows season after season, the sediment at the bottom of a blue hole builds up over time.
  — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
• The layers of ice are a record of Mars’ past climate, similar to the way that tree rings record Earth’s past climate, scientists say.
  — Fox News, 14 Feb. 2020
• Examining tree rings and scorch marks, Stephens was able to construct a record of fires dating back to the sixteen-hundreds.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Like tree rings, dinosaur bones form concentric rings in their bone's cross-section.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Since the 1950s researchers have known that the concentration of radiocarbon in tree rings varies over time.
  — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• If a storm damages and dramatically slows the growth of a tree, the tree ring will be much narrower than normal.
  — Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
• Examining the width of the tree rings in each core, for example, gives clues about when—and for how long—periods of drought occurred.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• Much like tree rings, the cones remained fairly distinct even after the animal died.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Williams said that tree ring records do provide some reason for hope — megadroughts do eventually end when the rains return.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• Researchers have since identified ten major carbon-14 spikes, now known as Miyake events, in tree ring chronologies.
  — Kim Beil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• My landscape company was just working on my garden and finished edging all the beds and tree rings.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• In 2020 researchers used ice core and tree ring data to connect the intense eclipse to a volcanic eruption in Japan two years earlier.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 14 May 2022
• Ice cores are windows on the past, preserving the history of the ice sheet and atmospheric conditions in their tree ring–like annual layers.
  — Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024
• Friction point: Climate scientists are aware that such tipping points exist, given evidence for their occurrence in historic climate data, such as tree rings, ice cores and coral samples.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024