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Recent Examples of firewood
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.
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Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
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
Trim trees and shrubs away from your home, replace damp or decaying wood on your house, move mulch a few inches away from your home and limit it to no more than 3 inches deep, store firewood off the ground, and seal up any possible avenues in and under your home.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
Initially established in 1725, the restaurant celebrates 300 years this year, maintaining its 18th-century interior and original firewood oven.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
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Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
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
Trim trees and shrubs away from your home, replace damp or decaying wood on your house, move mulch a few inches away from your home and limit it to no more than 3 inches deep, store firewood off the ground, and seal up any possible avenues in and under your home.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
Initially established in 1725, the restaurant celebrates 300 years this year, maintaining its 18th-century interior and original firewood oven.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firewood
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Never a lunch for me, this summertime snack was easy to make and kept me fueled up for a long day of running through the woods.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
27 June 2025
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Experts with AccuWeather recommend long sleeves in areas where there may be ticks, such as woods or tall grass, and to check your body after spending time outdoors.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
Noun
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There are a prime location, so individuals should remove any leftover lumber from a project or any loose branches, stumps or rocks to remove potential habitats for snakes.—
Alyssa Cooper,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 June 2025
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With the area's timber having been mostly cut, the lumber mills moved elsewhere.—
Jack Schnedler,
Arkansas Online,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Each lamp head can swivel 350° side-to-side and tilt 90° up or down, with beam angles that go from narrow spotlighting to wide ambient wash.—
Paul Lamkin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The adaptive reuse design preserves the 1907 warehouse’s original Douglas fir beams and brickwork while slashing the building’s carbon footprint.—
Leilani Marie Labong,
Travel + Leisure,
29 June 2025
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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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