How to Use Sitka spruce in a Sentence

Sitka spruce

noun

• Kake makes claim to having the world’s largest totem pole carved from a single tree – a Sitka spruce.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• Circular sanders smooth rough edges on costly Sitka spruce soundboards.
  — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• Young cottonwood and Sitka spruce began taking hold on the wider floodplain.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• Young cottonwood and Sitka spruce began taking hold on the wider floodplain.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The lofty Sitka spruce off Highway 43 stood within the sale's boundaries.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
• New furniture includes handmade Sitka spruce tables and desks.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Yamaha The guitar rocks a dreadnought shape with a lower cut for higher fret access, and features a Sitka spruce top with mahogany back and sides.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
• Constructed with teak decking, mahogany woodwork and masts made of Sitka spruce, the boat was a thoroughbred under sail—sleek, responsive and, above all, fast.
  — David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
• Redwoods are so large that one reportedly was found to house a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 8 feet tall, growing far off the ground within the larger tree.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• The great mahogany trees of Belize are severely depleted, as are old-growth trees the world over, especially rosewood, ebony and Sitka spruce.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• Alaska The Sitka spruce is Alaska's state tree, often found in southeastern and central Alaska.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Wind through Sitka spruce and Western hemlock trees on the way to this Oregon State Park, less than a 10-minute drive from downtown.
  — Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026
• The main culprit is Sitka spruce, which crowd and slowly kill Scots pine—a risk that increases year-on-year, with mature conifers an acute threat to Scots pine and other native trees.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Feb. 2023
• Fine attention to detail is all-around here, including a Sitka spruce top, solid maple back and sides, and a mahogany neck capped with an Indian rosewood fretboard.
  — Joshua Kanter, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022
• One of the biggest challenges facing the piano maker is a potential shortage of Sitka spruce lumber, which Steiner said makes the very best instruments.
  — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• Thanks to biking, paddleboarding, boat tours, fishing, and hiking trails — one of which leads to a 1,000-year-old Sitka spruce tree — there's no shortage of natural delights here.
  — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
• Non-native trees, primarily Sitka spruce, were recorded in 32% of Caledonian pinewood and considered abundant in 7%.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Feb. 2023
• Nearly 2 million people visit the Tongass every year, coming from all over the world to marvel at the vast swaths of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and red and yellow cedar, some towering as tall as 200 feet.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022
• Trek up to the Astoria Column along the Cathedral Tree Trail (and pay a visit to a 300-year-old Sitka spruce along the way), follow in Lewis and Clark’s footsteps on the Fort to Sea Trail, and stroll along over six miles of Columbia shoreline on the Riverwalk trail.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025