How to Use beech in a Sentence

beech

noun
  • Limbs of maples and beeches and other trees stretched over his head.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Paper-thin beech leaves rattled above us.
    Beka Garris, Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The tiers themselves feel wrapped around you like shawls of oak, beech and walnut.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • By and large, the same beech and maple ridges still overlook the same spruce and pine lowlands.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The beech wood handle was one of the most comfortable in our test.
    Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The room is now lighter and brighter, with walls sheathed in rippling beech wood and the stage clad in white oak.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The trees are missing their leaves because of beech leaf disease.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In the end, someone returns from the ravine with two beech branches to mark the grave.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The hemlock, maple, oak, beech and tulip trees are awash in crimson, orange and gold.
    John Pana, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
  • This is also a very lightweight knife with a thinner beech wood handle.
    Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This is also a very lightweight knife with a thinner beech wood handle.
    Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
  • It’s made from natural beech wood and can be used as a cutting board and a breadboard.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Behind them, the pink leaves of a tricolor beech tree bring just a touch of soft color.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • Thousands of acres of pine, beech and oak forests have been decimated.
    Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • While the leaves are green and plentiful on other trees in the park, the beech tree is barren.
    Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Bears have been venturing farther to find food like the nuts from beech or chestnut trees, left.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Many birds steer clear of beech and sugar maple, instead choosing oak trees for nesting.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The beeches and the black-locust trees display white flowers.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The fuzzy white stuff is not a fungus, but are woolly beech aphids (Phlaphis fagi).
    oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Logging and changing land use have led to the decline of old-growth beech and oak forests in many areas.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Created with 4 mm beech or walnut plywood, the tags are made to last.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Crisp mountain air fills our lungs as sweeping oak, beech and chestnut trees shade us from the rising sun.
    Paul Feinstein, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There, somewhere under the dense cover of hemlock and maple, beech and pine, the truck came to a stop.
    Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • For the frame, consider hardwood such as oak, ash, or beech, and avoid pine, which costs less but is not as durable.
    Molly Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Romania has one of the largest old-growth forests left in the world, home to ancient and rare spruce, beech, and oak trees.
    Longreads, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1400s, Dutch golfers played with smooth wooden balls made from beech or elm.
    Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Research showed that European beech trees can sense the longest day of the year.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Getler leads us to a series of beech trees Somers had identified while roaming the land.
    Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The soil is rocky and thin, and our house is surrounded by forests of maple, beech, birch, and hemlock that shade out the light.
    Christopher Ketcham, Outside Online, 20 May 2020
  • For the frame, consider hardwood such as oak, ash, or beech, and avoid pine, which is lower cost but not as durable.
    Molly Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023

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