birch
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Among the evidence they gathered were purchase orders for birch plywood emailed from Boise’s Pompano office, including some that arrived after investigators conducted their raid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Chinese white-birch plywood sandwiches sheets of white poplar wood between outer layers of birch veneer, which is peeled from logs that are typically harvested in Siberian forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
The DB5 Vantage in silver birch grey owned by Mr Williams is one of only 39 such models in the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Yellow birch leaves blew from the trees and drifted down to rest on the surface.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Around 700,000 years ago, dense forests of pines, birches, and chestnut relatives gave way to more open habitats with larger patches of grassland.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
On another visit to the North Cascades, I saw vine maples alternating with birches and alders in deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
The mountains here have been gouged by heavy machinery and stripped of sugar maples, yellow birches and other trees native to this stretch of Mineral County.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
The water between him and the other side was very turbulent, but in the gleaming moonlight, the grove of birches, his destination, was visible.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had birched it down to Lake Chesuncook in by-gone summers, to see Katahdin distant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
I hated this, and would rather have been birched secundum artem than to have seen the girls giggling at me.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
He could, not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
They have not as much as had a birching; and I say that the college masters ought to be hooted.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
