How to Use pine in a Sentence

pine

1 of 2 noun

• But it’s not just filled with pines.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
• There are two blue-green pine trees out front.
  — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
• Dead pines, firs, and cedars stretch as far as the eye can see.
  — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• The mulch can be wheat straw, pine straw, aged wood chips, or bark.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
• Mixed oak woods, pine and birch, upland rowan.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• There aren’t as many pine trees and oaks around here as there used to be.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• Here's how to decide when wood mulch or pine straw is best.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
• Here's how to decide when wood mulch or pine straw is best.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• My neighbors, whose home is flanked by pines, were now trapped by them.
  — Erin Austen Abbott, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
• Use all those leaves, pine straw, or pine bark as a blanket over the bed.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
• Lynx, bears, and wolves roamed amid the dense Scots pine, birch, and rowan.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
• Oak, pine, maple, fig, date palm make their case by touting their strengths.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• Spend time amongst the pines on a hike or go fishing and birding.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2025
• The northern town is filled with cool air, pine trees and skiing.
  — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
• The ancient pine and birch forests were turned into seas of open heath.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• Cedar mulch can be double or triple the cost of pine and hardwood mulch.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
• Life feels quieter here, shaped by tides and pine rockland forests.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
• Again, way more pine than citrus, though there is a hint of pineapple.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
• Expect sand in place of snow and palms instead of pines on this coastal drive.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Bark nuggets, pine straw, and shredded hardwood work well.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
• Log cabins hidden among the pine trees are also a big draw.
  — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
• He was cremated back in March and is housed in a small pine box.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Whoever thought pines would freeze?
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
• And this time, the pine beetle is showing up in ponderosa pine.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Untreated wood such as pine, cedar, and cypress are a good choice for any bed.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• The pine trees are beautifully dressed in green, white, and red lights.
  — Sugey Palomares, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
• Trump, of course, openly pines to be a dictator.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
• The results showed that pine tree resin or tar (pitch) was the main component.
  — ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026
• This sweet strain has strong notes of pineapple, and undertones of earth and pine.
  — Emily Earlenbaugh, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• 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

pine

2 of 2 verb

• There’s a sense of angst and pining.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
• But mostly the judges pine to learn who is behind the visages.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• The goal is to help prime and fuel our team members who pine for more in their careers.
  — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Even those who bought iPhone 11 models last year might pine for these new ones.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• The game birds are especially averse to pine trees for this reason.
  — Andrew Weeks, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
• Written mostly by and for outsiders, their heroes tend to pine for escape.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• That alone has caused tension, as some residents pine for more local control.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2022
• 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 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
• The latter still has a cult following, and many still pine for EA to bring the franchise back.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• This week, there’s a new product for pickup enthusiasts to pine after.
  — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• Eco-warriors seem to pine only for solar panels, carbon sinks and bird-slicing wind turbines.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 27 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Beta-pinene, which smells similar to pine needles, can help relieve depression.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Hardcore Isbell fans pine for his Drive-By Truckers classics.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], 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
• 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
• Love & Basketball is just another teenage love story of childhood friends who secretly pine for each other.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 29 July 2022
• 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
• When the episode opens, Belly has been in Paris for a year while Conrad was at med school brooding and pining, his two favorite pastimes.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025
• In the 1960s, an interracial couple encounter aliens, and a sci-fi author writes pining letters to her lover.
  — Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
• Former employees still pine for that Kodak, some of them gathering in Facebook groups to reminisce.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
• Thankfully, for Land Rover fans pining to see its vehicles scaling rocks and cresting sand dunes in full race mode, their patience has been rewarded.
  — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Hack the North, which kicks off this weekend, draws interested students from around the globe who pine for a chance to participate in the prestigious gathering.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• Lana Del Rey’s vintage pastiches pine for a kind of serene, fatalistic surrender that in other contexts might be called toxic.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Stories of a couple who makes it against all odds, of a woman who leaves her controlling boyfriend in the nick of time, of would-be lovers who pine for each other in silence, of a priest who falls in love with his choir director.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 27 May 2022