Examples of firewood in a Sentence
They chopped enough firewood to last the winter.
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Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she's expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed.
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Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
And everyone else around the camp is working, gathering firewood, doing something, except for Rizo — being Rizo, being lazy, not doing anything.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
Remove firewood, bricks, boards, tarps, or vegetation up against the house, which shelters insects that provide food for spiders, says Gray.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
Previously, common people had shared the right to plow open fields, gather firewood, graze animals and cut peat from nearby bogs.
—Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
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Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
And everyone else around the camp is working, gathering firewood, doing something, except for Rizo — being Rizo, being lazy, not doing anything.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
Remove firewood, bricks, boards, tarps, or vegetation up against the house, which shelters insects that provide food for spiders, says Gray.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
Previously, common people had shared the right to plow open fields, gather firewood, graze animals and cut peat from nearby bogs.
—Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for firewood
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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firewood. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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firewood
noun
fire·wood
-ˌwu̇d 
: wood cut for fuel
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