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How to use redwood in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Redwood means a tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens. Example: “This redwood deck will last forever.”

Examples of redwood by meaning

nounA tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

  • a redwood grove
  • This redwood deck will last forever.

nounAny of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.

  • The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea.2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York...

nounWood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

  • This planter is made of redwood.

nounTimber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.

  • It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

More sentences with redwood

  • There will be a nondenominational service, open to all, on Saturday beneath the redwoods.From the entry nondenominational
  • Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.From the entry wood
  • The coelacanth and the dawn redwood are living fossils.From the entry living fossil
  • The Candelabra Tree is an old-growth redwood at Butano State Park.2022, JoAnn Semones, True Tales of California Coastside State Parks, page 60. From the entry candelabra tree
  • But let no man think the vast all-shadowing redwood trees of California grew in a mushroomic night.2019, Newell Dwight Hillis, The Investment of Influence. From the entry mushroomic
  • And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger.2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry undersea
  • Ernest Woodruff pounded his fist onto his redwood desk.2012, Balogun, The Scythe – A Two-Fisted Dieselfunk Tale!. From the entry broderick
  • When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.2009, Steven L. Layne, “Acknowledgments”, in Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers…. From the entry Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
  • The idea may surprise you, but I intend that it shall flabbergast the poor foolish Englishmen mured up behind those pine and redwood logs.2008, Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis: A Novel of Alternate History, New York, N.Y.: Roc/New American Library, →ISBN, page…. From the entry flabbergast
  • The building interior was Gothic and finished by multiple waxings of the commercial coast woods, redwood, sugar pine, white pine, and Douglas fir.2006, Mary Lou Lyon, Early Cupertino, page 81. From the entry waxing
  • A few woods, such as cedar and redwood, are prized for their rugged naturalness and they age so beautifully that they are generally left unfinished.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry wood

Meaning of redwood

  1. noun A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
  2. noun Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
  3. noun Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

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Questions about redwood in a sentence

How do you use redwood in a sentence?
Redwood is used as a noun. For example: “This redwood deck will last forever.”
What is a short sentence with redwood?
“a redwood grove”
What does redwood mean?
Redwood means a tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

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