cedar

Example Sentences

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Once, they brought in a shaman to cleanse the house with sage and cedar during a full blood moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

California Pizza Kitchen aims to highlight its diverse sit-down menu, which includes cedar plank salmon and braised short rib served with pappardelle pasta.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

But he then pointed to the deodar cedar next to where his brother’s house stood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

These 4,600-year-old funerary boats, made of cedar and acacia, were intended to transport the king into the afterlife.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

The surrounding chunks of the fallen cedar beams looked like the maw of the desert, rising to swallow up the dead city—and reminded me of Rasseem’s teeth.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri