How to Use timber in a Sentence

timber

1 of 2 noun
  • The big 8-point and a smaller buck stepped out of the timber at 6:15.
    Outdoor Life, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The animals are spread across the state from the open prairies to the dense timber in the mountains.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The use of timber is one of several tributes to Maine’s past and present.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Dunleavy also said the state could take steps to lower the cost of timber within the state.
    Andrew Kitchenman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Also, the timber was cut from the innermost part of the trunk, which produces the hardest wood.
    Ben Finley, Chron, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This area was mature, open timber and crunchy dead leaves scattered the ground.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Seven stops present a scenic scavenger hunt on this timber tour of sorts.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
  • One hunter did her testing in the timber forests of Minnesota.
    Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The monks and settlers cut native stone and timber to construct the first building on site.
    Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Stoked by record heat and dense, dry vegetation, the fire reached an area of heavy timber that hadn’t burned in 100 years.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Adult timber rattlesnakes can reach lengths of up to 5 feet, though there are reports of some growing up to 7 feet long.
    Muri Assuncao New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Particularly in the 1570s, there was war with Spain, and the need to build big warships with big timbers.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries.
    Time, 20 July 2023
  • My highlight of the bathroom is a freestanding bathtub alongside a pair of timber screens that frame the vista.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • After that, iron replaced timber in shipbuilding in the mid-to-late 1800s.
    Natalia Scherbakoff, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The walls of the big box warehouse building were made of cross-laminated timber.
    Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Coos Bay has long been looking for a new line of business to help make up for the timber industry’s decline.
    oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Due to the age of the building, heavy timber construction, and poor access, the firefighters withdrew.
    Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Beavers flood roads, fields, timber forests and other areas that people want dry.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • About 80 percent of the trail crossed land owned by nine major timber companies.
    Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • Is it made of old timber, possibly with parts still attached?
    C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Even on these saws, a sharp metal timber spike is a necessity to dig into the log and form a pivot point.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
  • By June, word was traveling in rural parts of the state that the bill, known as cap and trade, would decimate the timber industry.
    Britta Lokting, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The site where Stallworth and Gentry discovered the whale skull was on a swath of land owned by the teenager’s family for timber.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • True to the city's roots, Ringling used circus elephants to haul the timbers that were used to construct the causeway and bridge to connect St. Armands Key to the mainland.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • So researchers turned to dendrochronology — the dating of objects by the growth rings in timber — and a chainsaw.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • When a forest is clear-cut, for instance, GDP increases due to the labor and machinery used and the timber sold.
    Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Among the big timbers, a twelve-foot long, two-inch-thick slab of cypress that spent untold years submerged in the delta or the bay before being dislodged to wash up on the shore.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The burls are part of a lucrative timber market that drives tree poaching in the Pacific Northwest and across the United States.
    Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Suddenly, the head and shoulders of a large, wild canine appear before the timber that begins just 40 yards away.
    Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
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timber

2 of 2 verb
  • Faux cross-timbering across the garage evokes a barn or carriage door.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Tudor facade has brick and half timbering walls rising to a steep roof.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2018
  • Even timber companies that have been largely untouched by wildfires are paying for the risk.
    Alice Uribe, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • An array of cacti, agave and timber bamboo touches up the private backyard, which adds a swimming pool, spa and fire pit with a fountain.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Will timber harvested from lands under Conservation Fund care be milled in the region?
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
  • For years, the institute has helped timber executives who worried about the threat that new drinking water protections would pose to their ability to log.
    The Cutting, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Ghost forests dot the landscape, once-lush loblolly pines reduced to mere skinny sticks; timbering thinned the forests, and saltwater intrusion is trying to finish the leveling.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • As the trees grew, the family leased the land to timber companies, generating enough money to pay property taxes and cover some college costs.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • And timber companies inside the forest could still bulldoze short branches off existing roads.
    Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
  • When not in use, this foyer can transform into a 400-seat concert venue for musical performances and galas, thanks to timber stadium seating.
    Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The wood-frame structure and textured stucco exterior with classic decorative half timbering and adz marks faces the large central lawn of the Central Green with views of the broader garden beyond.
    Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This funding may come from state grants, foundation grants and loans, timber revenue or local agency contributions.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The plan appeals to timber interests and rural residents, who have long maintained that the state needs to address its overstocked and fire-prone forests – much of it federal land – with commercial thinning and fuel reduction projects.
    oregonlive, 17 June 2021
  • Unlike the previous government, the Taliban have not supplied engineers to monitor toxic gas, or timber to support tunnels that stretch for hundreds of yards.
    New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Rooms pinwheel off this central opening, each one timbered, clad, coffered or paneled in some local wood and detailed with the meticulous craft of a Japanese tea house, a far cry from modernism’s utilitarian open plan.
    Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 4 July 2017
  • Many emissions are unavoidable for global businesses, which has made standing timber a hot commodity.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • Decades later, portions with same-age trees would be harvested at once — essentially clear-cut, a major shift away from their efforts to steward timber to more closely resemble natural forest ecosystems.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The board took public testimony from conservation groups, loggers timber companies and counties that receive harvest revenues among others.
    oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Faux cross-timbering across the garage evokes a barn or carriage door.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Tudor facade has brick and half timbering walls rising to a steep roof.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2018
  • Even timber companies that have been largely untouched by wildfires are paying for the risk.
    Alice Uribe, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • An array of cacti, agave and timber bamboo touches up the private backyard, which adds a swimming pool, spa and fire pit with a fountain.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Will timber harvested from lands under Conservation Fund care be milled in the region?
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
  • For years, the institute has helped timber executives who worried about the threat that new drinking water protections would pose to their ability to log.
    The Cutting, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Ghost forests dot the landscape, once-lush loblolly pines reduced to mere skinny sticks; timbering thinned the forests, and saltwater intrusion is trying to finish the leveling.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • As the trees grew, the family leased the land to timber companies, generating enough money to pay property taxes and cover some college costs.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • And timber companies inside the forest could still bulldoze short branches off existing roads.
    Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
  • When not in use, this foyer can transform into a 400-seat concert venue for musical performances and galas, thanks to timber stadium seating.
    Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The wood-frame structure and textured stucco exterior with classic decorative half timbering and adz marks faces the large central lawn of the Central Green with views of the broader garden beyond.
    Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This funding may come from state grants, foundation grants and loans, timber revenue or local agency contributions.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020

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