How to Use sawmill in a Sentence

sawmill

noun
  • Over the years, the sets have ranged from a Mayan temple to a sawmill.
    Don Stacom, Courant Community, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Heinz led with a firm but fair hand in the woods, at the sawmill and at home.
    Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In that year, a land grant was issued to put up a sawmill on the site.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 June 2021
  • The sawmill, which opened in 1947, is like so many here: a survivor.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The town was laid out around an old sawmill at the end of the 19th century.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The sawmill nearly took the arm of a high school football player.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Saahil: rhymes with sawmill, or at least that gets you 90 percent there.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
  • Site work at the new Pike County sawmill is scheduled to start on March 15.
    William Thornton, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Lumberjacks felled trees and floated logs to the sawmill to make boards faster.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Harding built the town's first sawmill on the south bank of the lake, along with a three-room house for his family.
    Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
  • Rain and snow had left damp patches on the exterior cladding, which still had the scent of the sawmill.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Ivory, the son of a sawmill owner, grew up Catholic in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
  • Brooks was working at a sawmill when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940.
    Leah Willingham and Rebecca Santana, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The town is dotted with sawmills that are the backbone of its economy.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In the second, a 16-year-old boy was killed when he got pinned in a wood-stacking machine at a sawmill.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Hardy and Brown concluded, was to hire loggers to clear out small trees -- and that meant there had to be a sawmill to take the logs.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Wood chips, byproduct of area sawmills, bound for China pulp mills.
    Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • In the late 1700s, sawmills began popping up in Michigan.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • When the logging industry collapsed in the 1950s, one sawmill bought the other and shut it down.
    Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2017
  • The tanks — which were empty — weren’t damaged, but the blast blew out all the windows in a wood storage warehouse and in parts of the sawmill.
    New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The student body shrank decades ago after a local sawmill closed.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • When land is logged, the thick, straight trunks typically go to a sawmill that churns out things like two-by-fours.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The old mill-dam was formerly the site of an up-down sawmill which was moved to Old Sturbridge Village.
    Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But nationwide, the Obama era saw 7,221 new jobs in the sawmill sector.
    Josh Boak, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Bad Bunny plays in the background as Joe dismembers a dead body at a sawmill.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Patrick Jones dropped out of high school in 2013, then worked in package handling for FedEx and as extra help at a sawmill.
    Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The man known across south Arkansas as Mr. Garland and his uncle had built a sawmill in 1907.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
  • So Taylor worked to refurbish the sawmill and crack down on shady sourcing.
    Tim McDonnell, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • There will be a store to sell those goods as well as lumber − which Thompson will create with a sawmill in the back yard using logs from trees donated by Forest Home Cemetery.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The company can accept usable logs from individuals, but the source is responsible for transporting the logs to the sawmill.
    Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'sawmill.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: