TIMBER in a Sentence
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55 example sentences for TIMBER, such as:
1. Bring them bits of timber, Barney.
2. The pile of timber was still unsold.
3. The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
4. Nothing would burn like that except clean timber.
5. This illustration shows a section through the timber.
2. The pile of timber was still unsold.
3. The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
4. Nothing would burn like that except clean timber.
5. This illustration shows a section through the timber.
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Meanings and Examples of TIMBER
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timber
n. a post made of wood
n. a beam made of wood
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
2 The pile of timber was still unsold.
3 They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick.
4 Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
5 He had demanded payment in real five-pound notes, which were to be handed over before the timber was removed.
6 Meanwhile the timber was being carted away at high speed.
7 It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
8 So Sir Geoffrey felled timber and stood for Lloyd George and England, England and Lloyd George.
9 This was one of the places that Sir Geoffrey had cut during the war for trench timber.
10 The park was denuded of its timber, and divided into lots.
11 It is not ugly, you see, at this end; there is some fine timber, but the situation of the house is dreadful.
12 Oliver's vigorous plunges against the bit of timber in question, rendered this occurance highly probable.
13 Bring them bits of timber, Barney.
14 Nothing would burn like that except clean timber.
15 In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
Example Sentence:
1 The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
2 Before we could build we had to fire bricks and carry timber from the forests.
3 This illustration shows a section through the timber.
4 The Living area is a rectangular space with a polished concrete floor, eighty percent enclosed by retractable glass walls, and single-span composite timber beams supporting the sub-roof ceiling.
5 The deer has been jumping the fence to go to the timber from the corn field.
6 Companies have announced shutdowns or curtailments in more than two dozen timber mills in the province.
7 High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in the forestry industry that has kneecapped the economy.