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By Friday, however, no maypole had been stolen from Kühbach, and early in the morning the mostly young men and women, all dressed in their best lederhosen and light-blue dirndl dresses, came to the sawmill to triumphantly take it to the center of their village.—ABC News, 1 May 2026 Little mill with a big job About four miles south of Mackinaw City near the Lake Huron shoreline, a small sawmill tucked into the North Woods once had a big impact on Mackinac Island.—Andy Morrison, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Playing on the sympathy of the owner of the local sawmill, Winston leverages his family’s plight to talk his way into a job.—Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026 Its rooms would have been well lit by dormer windows of rare sash glass and floored by plank wood, which was difficult to obtain in the interior so far from the sawmills.—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sawmill