How to Use sequoia in a Sentence

sequoia

noun
Definition of sequoianext
  • When the snows and rains came in 2017 and ended the drought, the sequoias were still standing.
    — Zach St. George, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The fir and sequoia look tall enough so that would give you all sorts of room if pruned 50% or less.
    — oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Seeds slipped out of sequoia cones and drifted down through the smoke in the millions.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 13 July 2022
  • The Castle Fire in 2020 burned one-third of the region’s sequoia groves.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • The pitch masses shown in the photos are caused by sequoia pitch moth.
    — oregonlive, 9 May 2021
  • Wildfires have killed up to 19% – nearly a fifth – of the world's sequoia trees in just over a year.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • At the very top of centuries-old redwoods and sequoias.
    — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 29 July 2019
  • Beatty said sequoia cones need fire to clear duff and open space for their seeds to grow.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
  • The home of some of the world's largest and oldest sequoia trees will re-open to the public Friday for the first time in three years.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2018
  • One of the trees that burned, a sequoia in Board Camp Grove, was found still smoldering this spring.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2021
  • Last year, more than 10% of the world’s sequoia trees were wiped out by a single wildfire.
    — Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The trail and its 1,500-year-old trees were among the sprawling tracts of sequoia forest burned in wildfires over the past two years.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
  • There is beauty in the sequoia scars, bleeding out sap.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • At that point, the hospital hired tree experts and the sequoia has thrived despite living in the high desert.
    — Keith Ridler, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
  • Aldred climbed his first big tree, a sequoia in England’s New Forest, at the age of 16 with a couple of friends.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • The fire jeopardizes the safety of the hundreds of sequoia trees, some of which are believed to be thousands of years old.
    — Carlie Porterfield, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • This is home to some of the biggest sequoia trees in California.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Once the floor is cleared and the fire has opened up space in the canopy for light to break through, tiny sequoia cones no bigger than the palm of your hand will dry out from the flames’ heat and burst open.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But after decades of visitors and their cars, the grove of more than 500 sequoias was in danger of being loved to death.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2018
  • My wife has long been pining to travel the Pacific Coast Highway and stop to see the redwoods and the sequoias some day.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 30 June 2019
  • The exclusion of low- and mixed-severity fire from sequoia groves has harmed the species in other ways, York said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • About 70 percent of the original old-growth sequoia groves are thought to remain.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • For a long time, sequoias were thought to be indestructible.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The park is home to granite cliffs, waterfalls and massive sequoia trees.
    — Jiovanni Lieggi, Fox News, 20 May 2022
  • There is a wooded area with a pond, and the property has mature sequoia, Lebanon cedar and redwood trees, Mr. Hoyle said.
    — Alison Gregor, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • There’s something utterly spellbinding about the sight of the fuzzy red bark of a sequoia tree against a backdrop of fresh white snow.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The fire spread to at least 10 sequoia groves in the region, but it's not known how many trees — including some that were hundreds of years old — were destroyed.
    — NBC News, 7 May 2021
  • But now that it’s been mapped for both the sequoia and coast redwood genome, there are all sorts of opportunities that can grow from that.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Anticipate below-freezing weather in the sequoia groves, particularly in the mornings, evenings and on cloudy days.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Yosemite boasts five of the planet's tallest waterfalls, pristine streams, three sequoia groves, picturesque meadows, and rich biological diversity.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024

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