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Federov is a woodcutter with a blunt axe, unable to keep up with his competitors who use saws.—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2024 Any leftovers, one imagines, were carried by a woodcutter’s daughter to her grandmother in the forest.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024 At six feet six, with woodcutter’s biceps, Stanton can chop baseballs with such force that the sound resonates like an axe to a melon.—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024 Over time, blocks have been cleared for housing and, earlier this month, woodcutters arrived next door and cut down towering Eucalyptus tereticornis trees, known as forest red gums, up to 28 meters (over 90 feet) tall, to make way for another prospective residential development.—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for woodcutter
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