spruce

Already this year, thousands of white spruce trees in the area around Wisley had browned leaves in early August, a sign they won’t cope with a hotter climate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Helped into the apartment by an X Square engineer, the AI-operated Quanta X1 Pro robot uses its cameras to identify areas it could spruce up.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Martin and Co. guitar, a seamless blend of spruce, mahogany, celluloid, ebony and mother-of-pearl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Native trees like alder, spruce and rowan are interspersed with hawthorn shrubs.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Oteg found a place on the riverbank among some stunted spruce trees.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"Previously, it was spruces or cedars, but today, we find endemic species better adapted to the climate," Merdan Arazmedov, a member of Turkmenistan's Nature Protection Society, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

There’s no escaping the fact the simulated emergency care being given under shade of spruces could be carried out in grim reality in the coming weeks and months.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

At the head of it all, where the grass grows into a forest mixed with pines, spruces, and birch, is a small bar with a "Huuva Hideaway" sign hanging above.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

Firefighters said the fire was mostly contained to the ground with some torching in spruces.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

A hand swoops in to grab mine, pulling me toward one of the giant spruces, and we get under just as hail starts pelting down.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Mr. Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, if my hands adhere to cash, My gloves at least are clean, And rarely have the gentry flash In sprucer clothes been seen.

From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

They rode the sprucer for it; they were in better spirits for it.

From The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Frank Norris

You look very much sprucer than you did the last time you were at Bourg.

From The Nabob by W. Blaydes

There was dear old Ralph, looking quite ordinary and matter-of-fact, only rather sprucer than usual in his brand-new wedding garments.

From The Moon out of Reach by Margaret Pedler

Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Mr. Hugh Wenlock was on deck in the sprucest of his apparel, and was visibly anxious and fidgety, as befitted a man who shortly expected to enter into the bonds of matrimony.

From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood

Would any one wish to see these remains tricked out in the sprucest, or even the richest, modern habiliments?

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt

Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine— The 'Art of Cookery,' and mine, My Murray.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

Some buildings were spruced up as part of a tourism drive launched in the 1990s, which peaked in the years following the landmark 2016 visit by former US President Barack Obama.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

On a recent spring evening at Loma Alta Park — spruced up by the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, since the league’s former home at Farnsworth Park remains unusable — Gardner couldn’t help but smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

He’s pleased to see the estate being spruced up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

One of the most crucial sequences involves the makeover that Glinda tries to give Elphaba as she sings “Popular” in their Shiz University dorm room, which she has spruced up with pink accouterments.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

“Got any eggs?” asked Rooster Jim, all spruced up in mostly clean clothes.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Home sales are so slow owners are sprucing up their properties instead.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

I like sprucing up my ramen with fresh bok choy, baby corn, spinach and pickled red onions.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

While Malik welcomes the top court's observations and directions, she says that along with sprucing up laws, there's an urgent need to ensure their proper implementation.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Walmart is sprucing up its home goods to attract more high-income shoppers and better compete with the e-commerce titan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

“Is that bad? Maybe they’re downsizing. Or redecorating. My dad says knowing what to throw away is the single most important thing about sprucing up your home.”

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead