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firewood

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as in cordwood

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Recent Examples of firewood Store firewood neatly, preferably elevated and away from the house, and clear clutter that could shelter rodents. — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026 Hemp rope, oil, firewood and the clear evening visible through the gap in the south gable wall. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 The rules ban all plants within a foot of the home and require the first five feet around homes to be free of combustible materials such as firewood, fallen leaves and branches, and mulch or wood chips. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Every weekday morning, Luwi Ikabala sets up a sewing machine beside piles of sweet potatoes and firewood at the main market in Goroka, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 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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Floor-to-ceiling glass walls let a lot of light into the space, which is decorated in tones of gray, with dark wood herring bone floors in the bar.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
In 1966, an ambitious young businessman from Finland, Pekka Koskenkylä, decided to build yachts not from wood but out of a pioneering new material called fiberglass.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of wood

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Contractors and woodworkers who examined the structure told Thigpen the lumber appears to have been milled on site.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Kitch-iti-kipi was used as a lumber dumping site until 1926, when the spring and 90 surrounding acres were sold to the State of Michigan for, rumor has it, only $10.

— Savannah Born, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2026

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Two people were injured when a semi-trailer truck hauling steel beams hit the underside of the Lake Avenue bridge over the Edens Expressway near Wilmette on Thursday evening.

— Todd Feurer, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Cazalet said the figure could encompass the laser source, beam director, and cooling system.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

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