How to Use plywood in a Sentence

plywood

noun
  • The floors of the shed were concrete, and the walls were plywood.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The simplest way to do this is to clamp a spare 2x4 along the length of the plywood.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Measure and cut a piece of plywood to fit over the base frame.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Once secure, place a bead of glue along the top edges of the frame and set the plywood surface on top.
    Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • First, rip the 8-foot-long piece of plywood to 14 inches wide.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The plywood was then sent to a glass company and cut to the exact shape.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
  • What was once the showroom is now stripped down to nails, plywood and beams.
    Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • What was once the showroom was now stripped down to nails, plywood and beams.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The plywood sculpture starts on the floor and climbs up the staircase, following the angles of the home.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This tree is a sketch on plywood by Tanya of Dans Le Lakehouse.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Here, two pieces of plywood and a short length of 2 x 4 get screwed together and clamped to a handtruck.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The sturdy plywood frame will hold up to consistent use—just be sure to keep it out of the rain.
    Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Workers walked on sheets of plywood spread over joists.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Brackett planned to build a makeshift dam out of plywood and sandbags to put at the front of Rintaro.
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The fire appears to have started at one of the dwellings, made with plywood and plastic sheets, Shin said.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • When the settlement turned out to be more like a harem — and the harem’s shelter a roofless plywood box — Zahra fled.
    Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Strips of plywood and red oak add interest to the ceiling.
    Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Sheets of plywood, no insulation, a huge pile of dirt on the other side of a wall.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The towel warmer must be installed on wall studs or with a plywood backer.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The home’s windows were boarded up with plywood and tires and sandbags.
    Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Volunteers swept up the glass shards from the windows that shattered with the blast waves and plugged the window frames with plywood.
    James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Shattered glass from a broken display had been swept up, and a 5-by-3-foot hole in the roof of the cellar had been patched with plywood.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
  • Parker traced and cut out her snowmen, which ranged from three feet to eight feet tall, by hand from sheets of plywood.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In a building near Unit #32, intruders ripped away the plywood sealing a vacant unit and kicked in the door.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • To create the custom headboard, Ladd stapled fabric to the back of a piece of plywood and glued trim around the perimeter.
    Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 14 June 2022
  • The theater’s facade was intact, but the plaza was littered with plywood blown from the windows.
    James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The laser cutter to his right whirs to life, slicing the blossom design on slivers of plywood.
    Yusra Farzan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Several workers labored to remove the glass and board up the frames with sheets of plywood.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Griggs took another glance at all the plywood and sandbags in front of him and shook his head.
    Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • To keep the building’s youngest residents busy, there’s a rock wall and an abstract whale body made of plywood to climb on.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2023

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