How to Use wooden in a Sentence

wooden

adjective

• The guest speaker was wooden and uninspiring.
• The blaze sent the wooden buildings to the riverbed below.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Using the handle of a wooden spoon, make 4 holes in the rice.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Use a wooden spoon to scrape up browned bits from the bottom.
  — Odette Williams, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• The two survivors were found Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf coast.
  — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2023
• To the left of the driver is a lever sprouting from the wooden floor that serves two functions.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
• To make: Start by hot gluing moss to a wooden wreath form.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
• The wooden slats are wide and offer lots of shoe storage space.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• Now, the work has been covered with plastic and wooden boards.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• All of the knives and tools can be safely placed in the self-sharpening wooden knife block.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• Because this chime is hollow, rain and snow will pass right through and won’t warp the wooden frame.
  — Kate McGregor, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• First, cut the bananas in half, then let your children peel them and insert the wooden stick.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2023
• Turn off the oven, prop the door open slightly with the handle of a wooden spoon and allow meringues to cool gently in the oven for 1 hour.
  — Naomi Ross, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• Its back features a series of smooth wooden poles, each capped with a plush sphere.
  — John Wogan Laura Bannister Tariro Mzezewa Elissa Suh Dana Covit Jameson Montgomery, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The strain grew far more severe when Hurricane Maria swept her wooden home off the face of the mountain in 2017.
  — Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• The equipment was packed into a wooden box on Jan. 10, then fastened to a pallet atop the flatbed haulage truck.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• Inside you will see Asian statues, plants, paintings on the wall and wooden chairs.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The trio comes in a handcrafted wooden box with a premium caviar spoon and key.
  — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The open floor plan places the dining area — fit with a small round white table and wooden chairs — next to the cozy living room that follows the same theme.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• The wooden crib matches the side table and changing station.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
• This was a double-story house, very small, very poor wooden house.
  — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
• The space, with wooden tables and chairs, retro paneling, and old photos, is a dive (in the best way) but the cocktails are high-brow.
  — Kayla Webley Adler, ELLE, 10 July 2023
• Open the oven door at the minimum baking time listed on your recipe and poke the center of the cake with a wooden toothpick.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023
• Bridges cut a hole in the hallway's wooden floor, wrapped Blu's body in plastic and a blanket and buried him there, Roland told police.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
• On top, there’s a wooden piece with twine to hang from tree branches or on your mantel garland.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
• They may have been buried in a wooden container that would have decayed long ago.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• For wooden brushes, avoid soaking them to prevent damage to the wood.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• If your board is wooden, keep a careful eye on any blemishes or cracks in it.
  — Rachael Hogg, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2024
• The service starts with a large wooden bowl and two wooden mixing pallets.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Fred Mitchell started to put on a pair of rain boots, intent on saving a wooden desk in his muddy garage.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024