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With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

They are from 7 to 8 feet long, made from carefully selected 50-to-60-year-old pine and spruce trees felled in early summer; tests of replica spears have suggested a range of about 38 yards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

She looked at the giant spruce that dominated the stage.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

"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

On nicer days, pedal the eight-plus-mile Discovery Trail past beach grass, dunes and Sitka spruces.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

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

It was filled with thousands of perfectly rendered maples, oaks, spruces, and tamaracks.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house.

From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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

The storekeeper, much sprucer in dress than heretofore, smiled and nodded to her over the bridge of his violin.

From How Janice Day Won by Helen Beecher Long

Or he would be denounced as a "sprucer" if he managed to arrive late for his meal and yet, by a trick, to secure a front place in the waiting queue at the canteen.

From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir

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

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

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

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

While he has not produced a successful and critically acclaimed new musical in many years, the better-known works in his catalog have been spruced up by innovative directors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

The hall is spruced up with new seats and looks lovely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024

Last summer my mom and I spruced up the old cupboards with a coat of high-gloss white and threw down some chunky black and white checked linoleum.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

Minister Chung said North Koreans have been spotted "sprucing up" areas near the JSA for the first time this year -- cleaning, pulling weeds, tidying flower beds and taking photos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

“It could use some sprucing up,” Håkon agreed.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack