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firewood

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Recent Examples of firewood Move stacks of firewood and piles of sticks and twigs at least 20 feet from your home. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 July 2026 Store firewood as far away from your home as possible and clean up any brush piles. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026 Don’t leave any piles of leaves, mulch, or stacks of firewood near the foundation of your home. — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 5 July 2026 Add chunk oak firewood or oak smoking chunks directly onto the hot coals. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for firewood

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For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded.

— Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 17 June 2026
In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream.

— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025

Definition of cordwood

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The first thing that hits you at Azuma Farm Koiwai is the fresh, calming smell of hinoki wood, which is layered on the lofty ceilings around the resort, and decorates the handful of quaint cabins that are dotted across its grounds.

— Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 16 July 2026
That palette is echoed in the interior, where cork and eucalyptus wood play against bronze hardware.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 July 2026

Definition of wood

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Long before the city became a byword for radical activism, Eugene was a lumber town.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Inside a factory alongside Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley, a forklift delivered a stack of precut lumber to two waiting carpenters.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Definition of lumber

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The formal dining room, located southeast of the front door, features what the book calls false-wood beams in the plaster ceiling.

— Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
According to the researchers, future development will focus on improving energy beam control while reducing the size and cost of high-power microwave systems.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

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