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• Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room.From the entry spruce up
• Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.From the entry drunken trees
• The words oak, maple, spruce, and linden are coordinate terms beneath the hypernym of tree.From the entry coordinate term
• The Seltzerita is fuzzy's signature frozen margarita that's spruced up with a can of lime-flavored hard seltzer.2020 July 22, “5 Beloved Restaurants Debuting New Menu Items While Cutting Others”, in Eat This, Not That, archived from the original on…. From the entry seltzerita
• The headwaters of Alarka Creek are within the heart of the boggy red spruce forest.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
• The black spruce of Three Streams, echoing the sweet tongue of Betula Carla, be yet to forget.2013, Michael Larsen, “Part 1: Choice”, in The Corridor, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry rebirth
• My other brother Gust Jensen and his friend, Paul Zachar, were out hunting for spruce hen, too.2013, Barbara Atwater, Walter's Story: Pedro Bay, Alaska -- Past, Present, and Distant Memories, →ISBN. From the entry spruce hen
• We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good.2012, L.See, All Of Ya'll Aren't From The North, →ISBN. From the entry secondhanded
• Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming. From the entry bumpity
• We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.1997, Will Hobbs, Far North, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry broom
• Spruce hens are mostly found in or near spruce trees, and there are usually 10 to 20 in a flock.2014, Deborah Wood, The Legend of River Mahay, →ISBN. From the entry spruce hen
• A maintained loop trail leads through the red spruce forest.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
• The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir. From the entry blasty
• The idea was girls in quantity, a sort of harem steam bath spruced up to seventies health-and-safety standards.2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, page 69. From the entry bathroomy
• Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees.2006, Terrence Rundle West, Run of the Town, page 153. From the entry gronk
• Since the adelgid did not attack red spruce or hardwoods, its impact on the timber industry would be minimal.2003, Timothy Silver, Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains, page 238. From the entry adelgid
• But what about the spruce branch that didn't seem to have come from any of the trees near Aaron Stone's snowgo?2003, Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice, →ISBN. From the entry snowgo
• Spruce strongly podzolizes the top horizons of carbonate soils.1970, American Chemical Society, Chemical abstracts: Volume 72. From the entry podzolize
• When Pinion or Linnora found a clumpful of suitable spruce twigs, they journeyed back and forth at two- or three-minute intervals.1968, Les Whitten, Pinion, the golden eagle, page 102. From the entry clumpful
• Only the sagebrush, the road, and the dusty blueberried spruce for miles and the sun pricking the sand.1932, Edward J. O'Brien, editor, The Best Short Stories of 1932, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 44. From the entry blueberried
• The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry tump
• He was given to hanging out near the mouth of a sluggish stream which drained a big swamp far back in the spruce.1958, T.S. Denison, Hunting Adventures, page 123. From the entry ghost moose
• The gardens were spruced and the fountains played again and the two main hotels, the Splendide and the Hermitage, were prinked and furbished and restaffed.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Girl From Headquarters”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 35. From the entry prink
• Beneath a canopy of snow-dusted birch and spruce outside the border city of Imatra, Jussi Vainikka, captain of Finland’s border police for the country’s southeast, nods toward Moscow.2024 April 2, Howard LaFranchi, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “NATO has united the West for 75 years. Here’s why it still matters.”, in The…. From the entry snow-dusted
• The ashen knight (T. virgatum) is toxic, grows under spruce trees, and has a fibrillose cap, gills with black edges, and a tangy flesh when chewed.2020 May 5, Guillaume Eyssartier, The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America…. From the entry ashen knight
• He came to the strapping stump of a storm-snapp'd spruce and stood there staring at it musingly, then set to sculpting a slot in its side with his axe.2017 January 16, Aleksis Kivi, The Brothers Seven: A Tale, Zeta Books, →ISBN, page 238. From the entry witches' besom
• Vacuuming the house is a very quick way of sprucing it up simply because you can use the hoover to push everything out of the way.2014, Guy Browning, How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN. From the entry hoover
• An example is the golden buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta), a brilliant copper-colored beetle that bores into living pines, firs, Douglas-fir, spruces, and other conifers in the western mountains.2011, E. C. Pielou, The World of Northern Evergreens, 2nd edition, page 97. From the entry buprestid
• The larch, looking like a scrawny spruce or fir, is unusual for a conifer: it deciduates in the fall , the needles turning yellow before they drop.2007, Jerome Malitz, Susan Malitz, Acadia National Park Dayhiker's Guide: Maine's Coastal Gem, page 9. From the entry deciduate
• As he got out, a raven backwinged to a landing in a nearby tree and was scolded by a squirrel who had thought that it was his spruce.1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 212. From the entry backwing
• If your spouse, children or other significant others are still whining about all those holiday leftovers you made them eat, maybe it's time to spruce up your culinary skills.1989 December 26, Graham Vink, “Not At Home On The Range”, in Spokesman-Review, retrieved 27 Oct 2013, page F1. From the entry significant other
• With the exception of spruce bark, which cannot be considered to be a typical tannin, all the tannins give degrees of tannage in the neighbourhood of 50.1954, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, volume 102, page 850. From the entry tannage
• A grove of oaks, sturdy, spreading wide their branches clad in green-bronze leaves, had thrived to the elimination of spruces, except a few giants that could not be choked out.1931, Zane Grey, chapter 14, in Sunset Pass, New York: Pocket Books, page 224. From the entry choke out

Meaning of spruce

1. noun Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
2. noun The wood of a spruce.
3. noun Made of the wood of the spruce.

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How do you use spruce in a sentence?

Spruce is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “That spruce table is beautiful!”

What is a short sentence with spruce?

“That spruce table is beautiful!”

What does spruce mean?

Spruce means any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.