How to Use timber in a Sentence

timber

1 of 2 noun

• The light timber kitchen is the true heart of the home.
  — Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 28 Jan. 2026
• Shiver me timbers and blow me down.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
• The house still smelled of timber, paint, concrete dust.
  — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
• Thousands of timber jobs were lost.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• Early snow had drifted half way to my knees in the timber.
  — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
• Seven stops present a scenic scavenger hunt on this timber tour of sorts.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
• The other buck had run back into the timber.
  — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
• These timber tones are the number-one choice for modern kitchens.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
• This area was mature, open timber and crunchy dead leaves scattered the ground.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• The rampart line showed some signs of timber box structures, filled with stone or soil.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 Mar. 2026
• Most of the avalanches that are breaking are large enough to bury a car or break timber.
  — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
• The false front of a saloon still stood, with an alder tree growing through its warped timbers.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• Early builders relied on timber, stone, and clay.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
• That nearly hundred-year-old timber still stands.
  — Essence, 17 Dec. 2025
• Forests are more than just timber factories.
  — John Parker, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
• At first it was lined with timber, but later that was replaced with concrete.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 June 2026
• It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
  — Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Is it made of old timber, possibly with parts still attached?
  — C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• An open timber-frame structure keeps part of this outdoor kitchen dry from rain showers.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
• The bull disappeared at a steady walk into some timber.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2026
• The animals are spread across the state from the open prairies to the dense timber in the mountains.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024
• Beavers flood roads, fields, timber forests and other areas that people want dry.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• The timber cruiser was boiling mad.
  — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
• Others cheered from the darkness as the timber frame collapsed.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
• All that timber is now fuel for wildfires, experts say.
  — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 11 Feb. 2026
• Its name means tree, timber, and three – the latter a nod to the project's three-building layout.
  — Adam Williams may 09, New Atlas, 9 May 2026
• After about 10 minutes a gray wolf streaked out of the timber and grabbed a big cow by the flank.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Dunleavy also said the state could take steps to lower the cost of timber within the state.
  — Andrew Kitchenman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• The monks and settlers cut native stone and timber to construct the first building on site.
  — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024

timber

2 of 2 verb

• Faux cross-timbering across the garage evokes a barn or carriage door.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2019-09-26
• The Tudor facade has brick and half timbering walls rising to a steep roof.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 2018-06-11
• Even timber companies that have been largely untouched by wildfires are paying for the risk.
  — Alice Uribe, WSJ, 2021-02-26
• And timber companies inside the forest could still bulldoze short branches off existing roads.
  — Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 2020-08-11
• This funding may come from state grants, foundation grants and loans, timber revenue or local agency contributions.
  — Popular Science, 2020-10-19
• Will timber harvested from lands under Conservation Fund care be milled in the region?
  — oregonlive, 2021-11-25
• For years, the institute has helped timber executives who worried about the threat that new drinking water protections would pose to their ability to log.
  — The Cutting, ProPublica, 2020-08-07
• Ghost forests dot the landscape, once-lush loblolly pines reduced to mere skinny sticks; timbering thinned the forests, and saltwater intrusion is trying to finish the leveling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2019-10-25
• When not in use, this foyer can transform into a 400-seat concert venue for musical performances and galas, thanks to timber stadium seating.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 2021-03-30
• Unlike the previous government, the Taliban have not supplied engineers to monitor toxic gas, or timber to support tunnels that stretch for hundreds of yards.
  — New York Times, 2022-03-29
• Decades later, portions with same-age trees would be harvested at once — essentially clear-cut, a major shift away from their efforts to steward timber to more closely resemble natural forest ecosystems.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021-11-28
• The wood-frame structure and textured stucco exterior with classic decorative half timbering and adz marks faces the large central lawn of the Central Green with views of the broader garden beyond.
  — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 2019-09-03