fir - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • spruce: The spruce firs, too, are very fine.
  • make: The majority of these have been taken down to make way fir the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
  • plant: What he can plant the fir for, God only knows, seeing that the country is already over-stocked with that rubbish.
  • do: The Didache does not fir clearly into any period of liturgy or ministry for which we have documentation.
  • get: If the robot serves you, you don't get fir enough and you become lazy.

Adjective modifier

  • Scotch: Passed a fine plantation of Scotch firs, exactly 14 feet square.
  • noble: Tree buyers camped outside a shopping center hours before dawn on Saturday to await a shipment of 130 noble firs flown in from Oregon.
  • grand: Ash, sycamore, beech, lime, Scots pine and grand fir are among the range of trees that occur.
  • silver: Siemens ( 1929 ) reported dermatitis from the foliage of silver fir; patch tests were not recorded.
  • dark: The higher slopes, often wrapped in mist, are thick with pine forests, golden bamboo and dark green firs.
  • green: My thoughts are green fir, my body is dark pine.

Modifies a noun

  • clubmoss: Other plants may include the fir clubmoss, Huperzia selago and the wooly fringe moss, Racomitrium lanuginosum.
  • cone: The roof represents a folded leaf, the shingles a fir cone.
  • tree: Jack stared at the small fir tree nestled in the corner of his living room.
  • plantation: Dominant height of Douglas fir plantations in Portugal were modeled using nine growth models.
  • forest: Meribel's 18-hole golf course, its fairway flanked with fir forests, requires good technical ability.
  • t: Firs t, there is in verse 2 ' the law of the Spirit of life ' .

Noun used with modifier

  • douglas: In Canadian forestry high quality red alder logs are said to be approximately equal in value to that of a douglas fir log.
  • silver: Silver fir was the main species, followed by beech.
  • balsam: A florist developed contact dermatitis from the foliage of balsam fir; a patch test produced a positive reaction ( Kappes 1948 ).

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