Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use pine in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Pine means any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. Example: “The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.”

Examples of pine by meaning

nounAny coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

  • The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

nounThe bench, where players sit when not playing.

  • Take off your gear and hit the pine.2019, Martin Copeland, The Boys from Dogtown

nounA counter or bartop.

  • I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!

verbTo languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

  • The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 29
  • Before I pine away (Pine away)2001 May 15, Tool, “Reflection” (track 11), in Lateralus

verbTo long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

  • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
  • Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war.2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times

More sentences with pine

  • This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.From the entry stand
  • She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.From the entry idiom
  • The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.From the entry barren
  • Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.From the entry aspen
  • The Christmas tree fell in a flutter of ornaments and pine needles.From the entry flutter
  • I think I'm gonna hyzer it around the pine tree to reach the circle.From the entry hyzer
  • Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.From the entry honeycomb
  • Jones rode the pine much of the season.From the entry ride the pine
  • From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.From the entry flyspeck
  • Pine trees produce a sticky resin.From the entry resin
  • Like a cat he crawled through the pines, watching the hen pheasant.2025, Daniel P. Mannix, The Fox and the Hound. From the entry upcraned
  • Her favourite combinations involve pine, boletus mushroom and sake, or celery, tonka and amber ale.2021, Agence France-Presse, Michelin awards star to vegan restaurant for the first time in France, The Guardian. From the entry tonka
  • Add the pine nuts and stir to combine with the orecchiette and rabe.2020, Charlotte Druckman, Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients: A Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry rabe
  • Pine needles cycloned wildly as Jan swung her car into the Institute's parking lot.2018, Wayne Kyle Spitzer, Death Scene, page 2. From the entry cyclone
  • However, compared to Masson pine needles, the waxy of camphor leaves showed thinner and more dasyphyllous.2018 August, Jun Zhou, Zhangwei Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, “Deposition and Fate of Mercury in Litterfall, Litter, and Soil in Coniferous and…. From the entry dasyphyllous
  • A dank duochrome prevailed, matte silver and green-black, curled fog strangling the pines.2018, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, A Measure of Darkness. From the entry duochrome
  • Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian. From the entry mammophant
  • Insects were now awake and playing between the pine branches and the leaf drift.2017, Helen McClory, chapter 42, in Flesh of the Peach, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry insectual
  • Couple others got killed when them big pines fell on them.2015, Johnny Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story. From the entry dangersome
  • Off the heat, add the toasted pine nuts and roughly chopped parsley and taste for seasoning.2015, Sally Clarke, 30 Ingredients, London: Frances Lincoln, published 2016, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry olive oily
  • The achey way from Aljezur is fringed with fine sand and deep forests of umbrella pines.2014 May 9, Kevin Gould, “Walking the Algarve: to Portugal's land's end”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News…. From the entry achey
  • A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry shat
  • I found myself pining for a Gauguinesque South Pacific that’s long since vanished, if it ever existed.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Gauguinesque
  • No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.2008, Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux, published 2008, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry blueberrying
  • The beetle’s usual targets were once midaltitude lodgepole and ponderosa pines.2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times. From the entry midaltitude
  • We cut down pine trees and then had to strip off all the bark.2006, James Mills Hill, I Have Been Blessed!: Hard Work and Happiness. From the entry strip off
  • They used abandoned tipi poles, usually lodgepole pine, at least once and found they worked well.2004, Verne C. Huser, “Traveling upstream and down”, in On the River With Lewis and Clark (Environmental History series), volume 19, Texas…. From the entry river bottom
  • Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.2002, Alice Sebold, chapter 5, in The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, page 92. From the entry clog
  • Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white.2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3. From the entry corn-flakey
  • The loft is made completely of pine with matching wood furniture.1999 September, Linda Marx, “The view from the porch of Fred and Kathy Arnold's new pine log home is one of splendid isolation”, in Log…. From the entry granny chic
  • He'll appreciate me when I'm in a pine box pushing up daisies.1998, Frawley Becker, 411 Joseph: A Play in Two Acts (page 79). From the entry pine box
  • The vanillalike fragrance of the mature ponderosa pines fills the air.1998, Lisa Gollin Evans, An Outdoor Family Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry vanillalike

Meaning of pine

  1. noun Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
  2. noun Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. noun The wood of this tree.

Full definition of pine

Questions about pine in a sentence

How do you use pine in a sentence?
Pine is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.”
What is a short sentence with pine?
“Before I pine away (Pine away)”
What does pine mean?
Pine means any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use pine in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/pine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.