How to Use balsa in a Sentence

balsa

noun

• That big grapnel’s not made of balsa wood.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 22 June 2026
• The floor boards are a composite of fiberglass and balsa wood.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Measure and cut balsa wood and Velcro to width of shelf opening.
  — Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 26 Aug. 2017
• The ornaments start as simple balsa wood cutouts that cost only a few cents each at a crafts store.
  — Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
• Secured balsa wood splints behind her knees to restrict her movement.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• It was filled with hideous props — ghouls and skeletons crafted of balsa wood, wax, and papier-mâché.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
• The Dolphins and their 4-2 record are that pretty beach house on balsa-wood stilts.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 25 Oct. 2017
• To remove much of the lignin, pieces of balsa wood were treated with heat and chemicals for 5 hours.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
• This superb and innovative balsa-wood plug has been around longer than most anglers who fish it.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 22 May 2020
• Every child under 16 will receive a free balsa airplane of their own to make and fly.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
• There are notes of balsa wood, cinnamon, grape, apple, leather, and sweet tobacco on the palate.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 June 2024
• The explorer built the balsa wood raft to show that people could have made the trip in prehistory.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
• The bride's bouquet included dusty miller and eco-friendly balsa wood flowers.
  — Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2011
• The Scatter Raps are made of balsa wood and are available in 14 colors.
  — Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2019
• Mindy, who takes to a balsa Hobie as easily as Carol once did, has bigger plans.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• In addition to paintings, Matos carves figures out of balsa wood and mounts them on canvases.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• During the nascent days of the California surf scene, surfers were building craft out of balsa, cedar, and redwood.
  — Aeriel Brown, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee.
  — Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• It was called the Swastika model, a laminated balsa and redwood board that had a small swastika on the tail.
  — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Even a jerkbait with a buoyant balsa wood body that will rise incredibly fast on the pause can be made to hover with the addition of a few dots.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
• Any of a wide variety of bobbers and floats can be used, from snap-on plastic models to more sophisticated balsa or cork ones.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Turbine blades typically have glass-fibre skins, balsa-wood cores and metal or carbon-fibre spars.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• After time in the humidifier, Denton shapes the butterflies on boards made of balsa wood and blots them to dry.
  — Bryce Alderton, Daily Pilot, 3 Aug. 2017
• The pendulum-like mechanism was on ropes, and Buckley says there was a foot of balsa wood that was supposed to prevent any injury.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• One of the new artificial muscle designs is, in essence, a small, high-tech version of the rubber bands used to propel balsa-wood airplanes.
  — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
• Using balsa wood, Holliday replaced the parts of the coffins from which the bodies would need to burst and scored the wood for extra-easy breakage.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• For the kitchen island, White assembled balsa wood into a simple table design, then painted it to look like marble veining.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 31 Dec. 2019
• Rebuilding wood from the inside out The researchers started with balsa wood, not for its strength, but for its internal architecture.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
• Researchers will first test the load-bearing capacity of suitable natural fibers (flax, balsa wood, paulownia).
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
• The model airplane and balsa wood glider company has been headquartered in Wakefield for 99 years.
  — Chris Tanaka, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025