How to Use pine in a Sentence

pine

1 of 2 noun
Definition of pinenext
Synonyms for pinenext
  • Dead pines, firs, and cedars stretch as far as the eye can see.
    — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • West of the city, the tops of rows of 6-foot pines tilt to the northeast, pointing to Idalia’s path.
    — James Call, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • First come the plants: the Baishan fir and the Qiaojia pine, the coral tree and the suicide palm.
    — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There aren’t as many pine trees and oaks around here as there used to be.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • On Montgomery Road, the top half of a large pine tree was snapped off like a twig.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Nearby, pink flagging in the pine marked where the new A.T. would soon go.
    — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The pine trees catch a lot of snow around the branches, but not much at the base, leaving it less dense.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most of the floors and some of the furniture were made out of age-old reclaimed pine.
    — Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Mature pine trees mark the stone entrance of the brick driveway that arches around the front of the house.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • He was cremated back in March and is housed in a small pine box.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The ancient pine and birch forests were turned into seas of open heath.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • Expect sand in place of snow and palms instead of pines on this coastal drive.
    — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But there were charges toward the top of the leaderboard playing out elsewhere among the pines.
    — Alan Blinder Doug Mills, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • See me over there by the couple drowning in each other on the bench under the pine tree?
    — Jim Moore, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
  • For example, the Texas scent has notes of pine, leather, cedarwood, and more.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Again, way more pine than citrus, though there is a hint of pineapple.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In one photo, the fireplace mantle is lit up with twinkly lights and a thick swath of pine boughs.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Gentle hills, pine and maple trees, old barns, stone walls.
    — Cara Blue Adams, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The glint of a reptilian eye came from a grove of Australian pine below.
    — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The state park is home to pine and oak woodlands as well as creeks and inviting meadows.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The treehouse sits between two pine trees on 86 acres in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
    — Cari Shane, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The smaller of the two bedrooms is walled off from the main living space by a series of raw pine shelves filled with books.
    — Eviana Hartman Dean Kaufman Colin King, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The views from my car window are a Nordic cliché: long stretches of farmland that give way to thick forests of birch and pine.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike most of the old-growth pines, it was not chopped for lumber after its resin was tapped.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Less known are the effects of the tropical storm on the park’s Bristlecone pines, which are among the oldest trees on Earth.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In front is a small pine tree that is covered in these larvae that are eating the branches.
    — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In the dining room, meanwhile, the walls are accented with pieces of the Cove’s old Dade County pine.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The huge mammals can be seen chomping on the lush, green pine trees in a series of images released by the zoo.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • One of the biggest losses the bears have had to cope with is a staple of their fall diet: seeds from the whitebark pine tree.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 June 2023
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pine

2 of 2 verb
  • But mostly the judges pine to learn who is behind the visages.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • To pine for it is to be whipsawed between hope and despair.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Even those who bought iPhone 11 models last year might pine for these new ones.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The goal is to help prime and fuel our team members who pine for more in their careers.
    — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The latter still has a cult following, and many still pine for EA to bring the franchise back.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Lastly, using the Love Oil, drench the ponytail and start to wrap the bun pining into place.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The hotel is built around the garden, making this hotel one of the few places where guests pine for a suite facing away from the city.
    — Kristen Shirley, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2021
  • This is the kind of fresh glou glou natural wine fans pine for — grapey and with an energy that tickles the palate.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The wreath was still on the door and outside the January wind was corralling tinsel and pine needles into storm drains.
    — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Written mostly by and for outsiders, their heroes tend to pine for escape.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Woven through its solid malt base are hints of raspberry, freshly tilled soil and pine sap.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And yet, after careers spent climbing the corporate ladder, many C.E.O.s can’t help but pine for the office, too.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The Prince Edward-Gallion parkland, home to pine and hardwood trees, is Virginia's first state forest.
    — Joe Studley, NBC News, 23 May 2022
  • As the human workers pine for home, the humanoid workers increasingly pine to be more than what they’ve been programmed to be.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • In a cruel twist of fate, their characters continued to pine for each other on the show for another two years.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The coffin was draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and a wreath of flowers picked from the Balmoral estate, which included dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather, and pine fir.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Yet some fans still pine for Stevens to return his focus to the U.S. map—and presumably also to the emo-kitsch Americana sound of his earlier years.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The signs that Trump may pine for a return to the simpler days of hosting reality TV and stalking beauty pageants have perhaps been there all along.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The forest is almost all secondary, spindly pine and spruce less than a century old, reclaimed from the era when the island, like much of Maine, like much of the Northeast, was field and meadow.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • That alone has caused tension, as some residents pine for more local control.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Hardcore Isbell fans pine for his Drive-By Truckers classics.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 May 2022
  • Ndegeocello, 49, may pine for her teen years, but any nostalgia is filtered on her new album through the prism of age and wisdom.
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
  • This week, there’s a new product for pickup enthusiasts to pine after.
    — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Fans also pine for life on the Duttons’ sprawling, picturesque spread, where anybody who’s willing to work can become part of the family.
    — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The straightforward trail follows along the creek for about 2 miles, with aspen and pine providing cover and wildflowers popping at about a mile in.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • They were also said to pine for the stimulation of a human audience for their party tricks that include mimicry.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The dispersal of nuclear know-how in recent decades has led many observers to pine for the relative stability of the Cold War.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Eco-warriors seem to pine only for solar panels, carbon sinks and bird-slicing wind turbines.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • As much as Tottenham fans may pine for their Argentinian former coach, that is now water under the bridge.
    — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • As the summer begins — but not summer camps — families cooped up at home for three months are beginning to pine for vacations.
    — NBC News, 25 May 2020

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