firewood

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Recent Examples of firewood The turnkey campsites are a cross between a tent and a spacious cabin, and include three sleeping platforms and mattresses that fit up to six people, an indoor dining table, as well as a wood-burning stove and firewood. Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025 The trees not only provide shade for the coffee but also medicine, firewood, and animal fodder, and act as live fences for livestock. Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Neither the primary materials of sand and soda ash (sodium carbonate) nor the firewood for the medieval Venetian glassmakers were found in the city’s immediate vicinity. Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 Setup is quick and completely hassle-free; there’s no need for messy ashes, firewood, or complicated assembly. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firewood
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Washington — New air traffic control audio captures pilots in an apparent struggle to regain control of a private business jet as the plane plunged into woods near Lansing, Michigan on Thursday, killing all three on board.
    Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That last type of wood is obviously a nod to Frantzén’s heritage, although the whisky would have been put into those casks well before this partnership was created.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Grainier‘s an itinerant lumber man who worked the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century, felling timber and building railroads.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Home-building costs have also been soaring and are expected to climb higher with the new tariffs on lumber.
    Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are vaulted ceilings, post-and-beam construction, two kitchens, two living rooms and a ballroom.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The receiver can self-calibrate, detect weak signals with high accuracy, and operate invisibly, all using beams of light.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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