How to Use wooden in a Sentence
wooden
adjective- The guest speaker was wooden and uninspiring.
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The blaze sent the wooden buildings to the riverbed below.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
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Use the end of a wooden spoon to press the mint leaves and lime to the bottom of the glass.
—Giovanna Vazquez, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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The front part of the car crashed through the wooden fence of a nearby home.
—Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
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To clean, slide the pail out of the wooden box and place it in the dishwasher.
—Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2022
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Using the handle of a wooden spoon, make 4 holes in the rice.
—Megan Marples, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
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Much of the day was spent squatting in place on wooden boards in the cell.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
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The cop opens fire through a six-foot-high wooden fence.
—Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
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Use a wooden spoon to scrape up browned bits from the bottom.
—Odette Williams, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
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In the sweet shot, Luna and Miles stand on top of a wooden chair in a grassy area.
—Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 24 Dec. 2021
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Put a wooden spoon across the pot to stop it from boiling over.
—Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
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The two survivors were found Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf coast.
—CBS News, 11 Mar. 2023
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To the left of the driver is a lever sprouting from the wooden floor that serves two functions.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
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Add the sake, soy sauce, marmalade and garlic to the pan and stir with a wooden spoon.
—Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
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Photos showed the all that was left after the fire was the charred wooden frame.
—Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
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To make: Start by hot gluing moss to a wooden wreath form.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
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The fires quickly claimed many of the city’s wooden buildings.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
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The wooden beams and exposed stone apertures in the walls remind you of the heritage that lies in the bones of the house.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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There are string lights along the wooden fence leading from 59th Street, past the dunes and onto the beach.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
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Raised beds bordered with wooden planks took up the once large and open yard.
—Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
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And the whole time, the small Ielapi rode the razor’s edge between human and wooden.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
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The wooden slats are wide and offer lots of shoe storage space.
—Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
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The wooden high chair his car seat was sitting on broke.
—Kristina Behr, Parents, 2 July 2024
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Now, the work has been covered with plastic and wooden boards.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
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This one holds 145 cans and offers a sleek wooden frame.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
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All of the knives and tools can be safely placed in the self-sharpening wooden knife block.
—Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
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The vinyl liner and wooden frame holds about a lap-pool full of fresh water.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
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Add the flour and yeast and mix with a wooden spoon until the dough becomes a shaggy mass.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2021
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Photo : Krafty Photos One of the bedrooms features a wooden staircase that leads up to a loft area.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 June 2025
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Wood: Cooks in Mexico still use wooden tortilla presses.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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