Sitka
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“We’re not exactly the center of politics here in the islands,” said State Sen. Bert Stedman, a Sitka resident who represents the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Cruising the Inside Passage typically includes stops in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, and sometimes Sitka, along with a British Columbia port if your cruise sails from the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025
In 1806, the Russians sailed into San Francisco Bay, essentially on a shopping expedition to feed its outpost in Sitka.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
The band Skipinnish, which had played at the event, knew of the tree and led the conservationists to where it was hidden in a non-native Sitka spruce plantation on Achnacarry Estate.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
He took pride in using a variety of Northwest woods in his products—sugar pine for keels, ash for the frames, Sitka spruce for the gunnels and the hand-carved seats, Alaska yellow cedar for the washboards.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
