How to Use wood in a Sentence

wood

noun
  • He went for a hike in the woods.
  • She hit a wood off the tee.
  • The wood on the deck has begun to rot.
  • A thick woods runs along the boundary of the estate.
  • Their house is near a small wood.
  • Some baseball bats are made out of wood.
  • The house is surrounded by woods.
  • And then there’s the fastest crossbow in the woods kind of fast.
    Tony Hansen, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But the upholstery on the edge of my seat is worn to the wood.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Yeah, my aunt took apart a roller skate and nailed it on a piece of wood.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • At least three of the five years must be in wood barrels.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The pieces are made from wood and still look close to new after a lot of abuse.
    Martin Cizmar, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The top of the booth is still yellow, and the wood surrounding it is the same shade of brown.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The floor is tiled in travertine and cross-sections of wood.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Eat it on a stump in the grouse woods or with your back against a fence in a pheasant field.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Make short lines with a straight tip and press into wood.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • So here’s to them — and wetting our whistle with that wet walk in the woods.
    Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The lodge had two floors, made of wood and stone, and was tucked away in a thicket of guava trees.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The trap worked and secured the Malinois, who was unharmed from her weeks in the woods and the trap.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The deep amber tequila is smooth and fragrant with notes of caramel and wood.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • There are even species of mushrooms that glow in the dark, which many feel spawned the tales of tiny creatures living in the woods.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The woods in the area are laced with trails and are a popular place for students and others to walk and jog.
    Wayne Ford, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That plus the smell of the wood fire and the copious amount of lard on everything is amazing.
    Jorge Valencia Mariano Fernandez, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Blade size key to determining if a saw will be able to cut a piece of wood.
    Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And no, not to Montreal, but to a remote-ish inn tucked into the snowy woods next to a frozen lake.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
  • He then got lost and realized he was not fully prepared to be in the woods alone.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The six lanes made of reclaimed wood are open seven days a week, and ball and shoe rentals are included.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Rotted wood structural parts, such as floor joists or wall studs.
    Abieyuwa Aghayere, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Generally, these are among the loudest yelps heard in the turkey woods.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Still, Tate grabbed their fishing rods, reels, tackle boxes and other equipment, before throwing the equipment into the woods and damaging them.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 2 May 2024

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