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Recent Examples of cordwood
In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.
—Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024
Straw bale houses fall into the same category as cordwood.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2022
And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined.
—Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
The fourth and final case of success in Afghanistan concerns counterterrorism operations: those shadowy raids and drone strikes that have successfully stacked terrorist bodies like cordwood across Afghanistan and rural Pakistan.
—Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 23 Aug. 2017
The results have been poor on nearly all fronts besides counterterrorism, where the U.S. special operations and drones machine has continued to stack bodies like cordwood.
—Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
Earthwood Building School Fine-tune your skills at this specialized building school that offers several courses on cordwood construction and other alternative, energy-efficient building techniques.
—John Loecke, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.
—Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024
Straw bale houses fall into the same category as cordwood.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2022
And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined.
—Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
The fourth and final case of success in Afghanistan concerns counterterrorism operations: those shadowy raids and drone strikes that have successfully stacked terrorist bodies like cordwood across Afghanistan and rural Pakistan.
—Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 23 Aug. 2017
The results have been poor on nearly all fronts besides counterterrorism, where the U.S. special operations and drones machine has continued to stack bodies like cordwood.
—Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
Earthwood Building School Fine-tune your skills at this specialized building school that offers several courses on cordwood construction and other alternative, energy-efficient building techniques.
—John Loecke, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cordwood
firewood
Noun
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Five minutes in, the shrubs crackled as a stack of firewood on the side of the home — a common storage place for properties with wood-burning fireplaces — ignited.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
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Add a small pile of firewood to keep the soil cool and damp and provide a spot for firefly egg-laying. Plant more native plants from your climate zone, like goldenrod, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, or switchgrass.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
11 June 2025
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“Cordwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordwood. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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