How to Use lumber in a Sentence

lumber

1 of 2 verb

• The rookie gave a quick smile and lumbered to the post.
  — Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 1 Aug. 2019
• Still, the ship lumbered across the equator at a steady 18 mph.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Apparently the bear heard me and lumbered off toward the woods on the side of the house.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
• Easy-to-use clamping on logs or lumber up to a foot thick.
  — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Shakespeare lovers know that the tragedy at full length can lumber on for four hours.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• But while Wong saw a chance to advance from first to third, the lumbering Casas had to be held at third.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• No need to lumber down the trail like an overloaded gear head.
  — Lauren Steele, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• The next shot shows the grizzly lumbering away from the carcass as six wolves descend on the meat.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• But just a few feet from the lumbering train cars is a place that almost feels like home.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2019
• The bear quickly leaves the lumbering bison in its dust.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
• Soon some other men lumbered down from the village into the warmth of the kitchen and rested on a bench across from the fire.
  — Yaqoob Akbary Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Why would lumber yards and builders pay above market rates?
  — Fortune, 27 Apr. 2021
• All the while, the thing began to feel slow and lumbering on phones, and too basic on desktops.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
• That's because tardigrades tend to lumber along like a bear.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• On the other side of the river, a black bear appeared lumbering along the water.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Top dunkers have evolved from lumbering behemoths to athletes who can sprint the length of the floor in a few strides.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• But then, just as our thoughts were turning to lunch, a lumbering shape appeared on the road ahead.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• At a quarter to ten, as the debate was wrapping up, Bullock left his can of Bud Light at the bar and lumbered up the stairs.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
• The owner of the shining eyes had spotted the pair and was doing his best to move away from the lumbering humans.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The bench units seemed to stifle Cousins, who lumbered out of place in the half court with little engagement in the action.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 5 June 2019
• Tall, heavy, lumbering, his massive frame filled the room.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 10 July 2018
• To our delight, bears lumbered along the shoreline or galloped into the water to try to snag a fish.
  — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• These bears lumber through the forests by night, snacking on fruits, berries, roots, insects, small birds, lizards, and rodents.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Two military vehicles lumber forth—one to lead, the other to guard the rear.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Alan Tudyk’s lumbering, scene-stealing droid K-2SO is also in the show.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Sometimes the band skips the quiet part of the quiet-loud equation and just goes straight to loud, lumbering and pounding.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 July 2019
• No hawkers lumbered through the stands, calling out offerings of hot dogs and beer.
  — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Confidence: High Clouds quickly fill in Sunday as the storm starts to lumber up the Atlantic coast.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• And between tight zoning laws and the sky-high cost of labor and lumber out at sea, new construction is scarce.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• On the eastern edge of Bushwick, the train burst out of the ground, into daylight, and lumbered down a stretch that looked semirural, with cemeteries on the left.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018

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lumber

2 of 2 noun

• He works for a lumber company.
• The swing, a thick piece of lumber, clunks against the bull’s tines.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Oct. 2023
• Hold the lumber against the backstop and run the saw straight across and out the other side.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
• With lumber, the two-by-fours that were $2 each are now $8 each.
  — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• If the cost of lumber rises, so does the cost of building a home.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• An Ace Hardware store and a lumber yard are at the top of the image.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• Eubanks worked on a farm and then moved to Louisville to work in a lumber yard.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• The lumber and the stones [seen on the show] are all existing from the property.
  — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2022
• Jonathan Grant used to keep the barracks awake with the tremendous sound of sawing lumber.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• Still more ran to the mill, where the supervisor stashed them amid stacks of lumber.
  — Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• The splintering lumber broke apart and flew through the wind, still flaming.
  — Claire Galofaro and Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• All the tiny solar fan can do is move a minimal amount of air to try to cool down the lumber.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• In 1950, the camp buildings were demolished and the lumber was used for other city projects.
  — Jordyn Harrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Blade stick out below the shoe should be slightly more than the lumber’s thickness.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
• Reclaim Northwest donated the lumber used to frame the troll.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
• Noticing the tools and lumber in the truck bed, Rowe asked his driver about his profession.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• The scent of salt and lumber, evoking a journey on a wooden sailing ship, seeps into the room.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The saw is able to cut lumber up to 2 inches thick in one pass (when cutting at a 90-degree angle).
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
• But when logs came out of the mill, the lumber was of poor quality, and many plantations were abandoned.
  — Alix Soliman, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
• The club yielded much heavier lumber in seeking a new home.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• The 4x4 lumber posts are secured inside the planters using braces then set with concrete.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The decks are made from ironwood, a fire-resistant lumber.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• That helped offset still-high lumber prices and softness in do-it-yourself home projects.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
• Warped sheet metal, pieces of lumber and other debris were strewn across farms and roads.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the past year, homebuilders saw shortages of everything from lumber to kitchen sinks.
  — Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
• His father, Edward, was a New Yorker who came south to work as a lumber broker.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2023
• The steepled churches, town greens, mill dams, lumber mills and sugar maples of these West-migrating Yankees extended all the way to the edge of the prairie.
  — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• Schooner barges like Ironton were part of a fleet that helped transport wheat, coal, corn, lumber, and iron ore across the Great Lakes region, towed by steamers.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
• The larger units were made form 55-gallon plastic drums, PVC and a support structure made from lumber.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2023
• In that game, players build settlements in a new land by collecting brick, lumber, wool, ore and grain.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024