How to Use timber in a Sentence

timber

1 of 2 noun

• The big 8-point and a smaller buck stepped out of the timber at 6:15.
  — Outdoor Life, 8 Nov. 2023
• The animals are spread across the state from the open prairies to the dense timber in the mountains.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024
• The use of timber is one of several tributes to Maine’s past and present.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• Dunleavy also said the state could take steps to lower the cost of timber within the state.
  — Andrew Kitchenman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Also, the timber was cut from the innermost part of the trunk, which produces the hardest wood.
  — Ben Finley, Chron, 9 Oct. 2022
• This area was mature, open timber and crunchy dead leaves scattered the ground.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• Seven stops present a scenic scavenger hunt on this timber tour of sorts.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
• One hunter did her testing in the timber forests of Minnesota.
  — Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• The monks and settlers cut native stone and timber to construct the first building on site.
  — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• Stoked by record heat and dense, dry vegetation, the fire reached an area of heavy timber that hadn’t burned in 100 years.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Adult timber rattlesnakes can reach lengths of up to 5 feet, though there are reports of some growing up to 7 feet long.
  — Muri Assuncao New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 Aug. 2022
• Particularly in the 1570s, there was war with Spain, and the need to build big warships with big timbers.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• My highlight of the bathroom is a freestanding bathtub alongside a pair of timber screens that frame the vista.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• After that, iron replaced timber in shipbuilding in the mid-to-late 1800s.
  — Natalia Scherbakoff, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• The walls of the big box warehouse building were made of cross-laminated timber.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Coos Bay has long been looking for a new line of business to help make up for the timber industry’s decline.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
• Due to the age of the building, heavy timber construction, and poor access, the firefighters withdrew.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Beavers flood roads, fields, timber forests and other areas that people want dry.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• About 80 percent of the trail crossed land owned by nine major timber companies.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Is it made of old timber, possibly with parts still attached?
  — C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• Even on these saws, a sharp metal timber spike is a necessity to dig into the log and form a pivot point.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
• By June, word was traveling in rural parts of the state that the bill, known as cap and trade, would decimate the timber industry.
  — Britta Lokting, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• The site where Stallworth and Gentry discovered the whale skull was on a swath of land owned by the teenager’s family for timber.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• True to the city's roots, Ringling used circus elephants to haul the timbers that were used to construct the causeway and bridge to connect St. Armands Key to the mainland.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
• So researchers turned to dendrochronology — the dating of objects by the growth rings in timber — and a chainsaw.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• When a forest is clear-cut, for instance, GDP increases due to the labor and machinery used and the timber sold.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• Among the big timbers, a twelve-foot long, two-inch-thick slab of cypress that spent untold years submerged in the delta or the bay before being dislodged to wash up on the shore.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• In recent decades, however, their tropical forest homes have been slashed for timber and cleared to create palm oil plantations, especially in Malaysia and Indonesia.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• Their removal comes amid a thaw in China-Australia relations that’s seen Chinese authorities steadily roll back a number of those barriers including on barley, timber, and coal.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024

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timber

2 of 2 verb

• Faux cross-timbering across the garage evokes a barn or carriage door.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The Tudor facade has brick and half timbering walls rising to a steep roof.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2018
• Even timber companies that have been largely untouched by wildfires are paying for the risk.
  — Alice Uribe, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• An array of cacti, agave and timber bamboo touches up the private backyard, which adds a swimming pool, spa and fire pit with a fountain.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• Will timber harvested from lands under Conservation Fund care be milled in the region?
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• For years, the institute has helped timber executives who worried about the threat that new drinking water protections would pose to their ability to log.
  — The Cutting, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2020
• Ghost forests dot the landscape, once-lush loblolly pines reduced to mere skinny sticks; timbering thinned the forests, and saltwater intrusion is trying to finish the leveling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• As the trees grew, the family leased the land to timber companies, generating enough money to pay property taxes and cover some college costs.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• And timber companies inside the forest could still bulldoze short branches off existing roads.
  — Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
• When not in use, this foyer can transform into a 400-seat concert venue for musical performances and galas, thanks to timber stadium seating.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2021
• The wood-frame structure and textured stucco exterior with classic decorative half timbering and adz marks faces the large central lawn of the Central Green with views of the broader garden beyond.
  — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
• This funding may come from state grants, foundation grants and loans, timber revenue or local agency contributions.
  — Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
• The plan appeals to timber interests and rural residents, who have long maintained that the state needs to address its overstocked and fire-prone forests – much of it federal land – with commercial thinning and fuel reduction projects.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2021
• Unlike the previous government, the Taliban have not supplied engineers to monitor toxic gas, or timber to support tunnels that stretch for hundreds of yards.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Rooms pinwheel off this central opening, each one timbered, clad, coffered or paneled in some local wood and detailed with the meticulous craft of a Japanese tea house, a far cry from modernism’s utilitarian open plan.
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 4 July 2017
• Many emissions are unavoidable for global businesses, which has made standing timber a hot commodity.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• Decades later, portions with same-age trees would be harvested at once — essentially clear-cut, a major shift away from their efforts to steward timber to more closely resemble natural forest ecosystems.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
• The board took public testimony from conservation groups, loggers timber companies and counties that receive harvest revenues among others.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2020
• Faux cross-timbering across the garage evokes a barn or carriage door.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The Tudor facade has brick and half timbering walls rising to a steep roof.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2018
• Even timber companies that have been largely untouched by wildfires are paying for the risk.
  — Alice Uribe, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• An array of cacti, agave and timber bamboo touches up the private backyard, which adds a swimming pool, spa and fire pit with a fountain.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• Will timber harvested from lands under Conservation Fund care be milled in the region?
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• For years, the institute has helped timber executives who worried about the threat that new drinking water protections would pose to their ability to log.
  — The Cutting, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2020
• Ghost forests dot the landscape, once-lush loblolly pines reduced to mere skinny sticks; timbering thinned the forests, and saltwater intrusion is trying to finish the leveling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• As the trees grew, the family leased the land to timber companies, generating enough money to pay property taxes and cover some college costs.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• And timber companies inside the forest could still bulldoze short branches off existing roads.
  — Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
• When not in use, this foyer can transform into a 400-seat concert venue for musical performances and galas, thanks to timber stadium seating.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2021
• The wood-frame structure and textured stucco exterior with classic decorative half timbering and adz marks faces the large central lawn of the Central Green with views of the broader garden beyond.
  — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
• This funding may come from state grants, foundation grants and loans, timber revenue or local agency contributions.
  — Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020

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