How to Use white cedar in a Sentence
white cedar
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The oak leaf at the top and acorns here and there are fashioned from red and white cedar.
— Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020 -
Find the very best grub—a clear cut, white cedar swamp, standing corn, or a food plot—and camp out.
— Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020 -
Then come the cutting and hauling of greenheart for the keel and white cedar for the ribs, and the construction, right on the beach.
— Zuzana Prochazka, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2022 -
The eastern white cedar has fan-like branches with scaly flat, soft, leaves.
— Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020 -
The swamp encompasses stands of white cedar as well as black ash.
— Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017 -
At the base, the EDP is balanced by woody and earthy notes of white cedar, musk, vetiver and ambrox super.
— Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022 -
The busy feeders in the rear of our yard are about 10 feet from a medium-sized white cedar tree, well used, and a honeysuckle thicket.
— Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 22 June 2021 -
The products are packed in a keepsake Michigan white cedar box produced in the family's wood shop.
— Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022 -
The white cedar design comes complete with a wooden base and a delicate dusting of snow sprinkled along the branches.
— Nicol Natale, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2021 -
Traditionally, Cape Cods were clad with shingles of white cedar, which stood up well to the salt air and took on a silvery patina over time.
— Jeffrey Bauman, ELLE Decor, 15 July 2022 -
The eastern white cedar, very rare in the wild in Illinois but often planted in neighborhoods, is in the cypress family.
— Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Urban pointed out ironwood trees, white cedars and hemlocks.
— Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2020 -
The three-story wall between the patio and the new staircase inside consists of 23-foot-high channel glass by Bendheim Wall Systems and panels of white cedar.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022 -
Avoid slow-growers like Brazilian mahogany, Canadian white cedar, cherry, maple and oak, which take decades to mature.
— Scott Kirkwood, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022 -
Hanging from his rope 60 feet above, Roppolo says the nest at Reforestation Camp is freshened with white cedar and hemlock boughs.
— Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022 -
The faceted exterior, shingled in white cedar and faded by wind and rain to the color of polished pewter, is built in a concave bend around a circular gravel driveway.
— Michael Snyder, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020 -
Where Sendak’s wild things were fierce, lumbering beasts, the house, dressed in long, pale panels of local white cedar, is spry and lithe, imbued with the same anarchic, leaping energy as Max, the book’s boy king.
— Michael Snyder, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020 -
Its top notes are white frangipani and incense smoke; the middle notes bring together tiare flower, ylang ylang essential oil, and sandalwood; and the base notes combine white cedar essential oil and white musk.
— Marci Robin, Allure, 12 Sep. 2019 -
The mosquitoes are found primarily in swampy areas — specifically, red maple or white cedar swamps and wetlands.
— NBC News, 29 Aug. 2019 -
The surrounding park is planted with 50 different species native to the area, including wild ginger, sumac, chokeberry, white cedar, lady fern, white pine and purple prairie clover.
— Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021 -
The 35 bedrooms have white cedar-wood furniture and blue and green textiles woven by artisans in Oaxaca, as well as indoor-outdoor rain showers and, in some cases, hammocks.
— Nili Blanck, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020 -
Fueled in part by a popular crime novel, Seicho Matsumoto’s Tower of Wave, distraught teens and other troubled souls straggle through the 7,680-acre confusion of pine, boxwood and white cedar.
— Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017 -
Kimberly Richards, who lives in Friendship, Maine, is married to a third-generation lobsterman and paints white cedar buoys in custom color combinations.
— Hannah Beech, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
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