How to Use cordage in a Sentence

cordage

noun

• Meanwhile, his fingers are busy looping together paper cordage that will eventually be part of a larger installation piece in an upcoming show.
  — Sarah Sekula, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Teach them how to make a friction fire with sticks and cordage.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Learn what plants are good for rope making and learn how to make cordage.
  — charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• There are lots of hooks and taut lines of cordage to hang up wet gear, and the outdoor firepit is a great place to get some fresh air.
  — David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
• The simplest cordage doesn’t need to be braided, twisted, or sliced.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
• The ends of each bow limb can be wound with strong cordage, or covered by a protective sleeve.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020
• This is where cordage production comes into the game as an unsung hero.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
• Plants for fiber Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) has strong and flexible fibers from leaves; only the fibers along the outside of each leaf were used to make cordage.
  — Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
• After all, that stretch of cordage may be all that stands between you and your phone dropping overboard or into a fast current.
  — Field & Stream, 5 Jan. 2021
• Stone blades also come in handy for peeling bark to make cordage, and sawing and whittling other survival tools.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
• This is where cordage production comes in as the unsung hero of backcountry survival.
  — Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2020
• The cordage plants were the same types that Lee’s mother, Elizabeth, used in her traditional weaving.
  — Soleil Ho, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
• Some came from wood or cordage still attached to spearpoints; others came from charcoal, wood, or bone found at mines and human burials.
  — David Malakoff, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2021
• The continent’s earliest native people ate the fruit and even used the tree’s fibrous inner bark for cordage and textiles.
  — Andrew Moore, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
• To get started, suspend a line of cordage between two trees or similar supports.
  — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• And for the more plant-knowledgeable survivor, inner bark fiber from certain trees can be twisted into two ply cordage of any length and thickness.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
• And for the more plant-knowledgeable survivor, inner bark fiber from certain trees can be twisted into two-ply cordage of any length and thickness.
  — Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2020
• Improvements in rope have made the cordage stronger and therefore harder for whales to escape, leading to a surge in the number of extreme cases of entanglement.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
• Tightly lash the ridge pole with strong cordage and consider supporting it with by propping it up on additional vertical logs lashed to the trees on either side.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2020
• At the beginning of his journey into making a burden basket, Manuel practiced with cotton cordage to work on the weaving technique, an important part the process.
  — AZCentral.com, 2 July 2021
• If not, a little duct tape and cordage will give them some repair options without giving them too many opportunities to hurt themselves.
  — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• The blanket might have been created all at once, but the authors surmise that additional lengths of cordage and feather batches were probably added over time.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2020
• Stay for a cordage-making workshop led by Chumash jewelry designer Lea Valenzuela.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• Manuel carefully coils cordage made with agave fibers into a traditional O’odham burden basket.
  — AZCentral.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Visitors will also be able to participate in outdoor demonstrations like tule mat weaving, acorn grinding and cordage making.
  — Alex Schechter, New York Times, 14 May 2021
• Named for the path of life-sustaining plants carried in voyaging canoes with Polynesian voyagers, canoe plants were important for all life’s vital needs: food, medicine, fabric, containers, and cordage.
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• In fact, early examples of cordage could count as an indication of a much more intensive fiber industry, potentially involving the production of fabrics, bags, baskets and nets.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
• This fantastic book details the author’s five C’s of survivability: cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordages.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024