How to Use balsa in a Sentence

balsa

noun

• The Dolphins and their 4-2 record are that pretty beach house on balsa-wood stilts.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 25 Oct. 2017
• The floor boards are a composite of fiberglass and balsa wood.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Scatter Raps are made of balsa wood and are available in 14 colors.
  — Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2019
• To remove much of the lignin, pieces of balsa wood were treated with heat and chemicals for 5 hours.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
• Measure and cut balsa wood and Velcro to width of shelf opening.
  — Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 26 Aug. 2017
• Every child under 16 will receive a free balsa airplane of their own to make and fly.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
• During the nascent days of the California surf scene, surfers were building craft out of balsa, cedar, and redwood.
  — Aeriel Brown, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Using balsa wood, Holliday replaced the parts of the coffins from which the bodies would need to burst and scored the wood for extra-easy breakage.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• It was called the Swastika model, a laminated balsa and redwood board that had a small swastika on the tail.
  — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Mindy, who takes to a balsa Hobie as easily as Carol once did, has bigger plans.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• This superb and innovative balsa-wood plug has been around longer than most anglers who fish it.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 22 May 2020
• After time in the humidifier, Denton shapes the butterflies on boards made of balsa wood and blots them to dry.
  — Bryce Alderton, Daily Pilot, 3 Aug. 2017
• Most likely your parents helped you fashion blocks of pine or balsa into a light, four-wheeled racer, usually about the width and length of an iPhone.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Science, 3 June 2020
• In addition to paintings, Matos carves figures out of balsa wood and mounts them on canvases.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The pendulum-like mechanism was on ropes, and Buckley says there was a foot of balsa wood that was supposed to prevent any injury.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• The bride's bouquet included dusty miller and eco-friendly balsa wood flowers.
  — Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2011
• One of the new artificial muscle designs is, in essence, a small, high-tech version of the rubber bands used to propel balsa-wood airplanes.
  — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
• For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee.
  — Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Secured balsa wood splints behind her knees to restrict her movement.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Across the room, a balsa prototype of the iconic, spiderlike rigging used on U2’s 360° tour leans off an easel spattered with inky sketches.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• Any of a wide variety of bobbers and floats can be used, from snap-on plastic models to more sophisticated balsa or cork ones.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• For the kitchen island, White assembled balsa wood into a simple table design, then painted it to look like marble veining.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 31 Dec. 2019
• In the session devoted to structures, Michelle Kim, 11, and her partner designed and constructed a miniature bridge out of balsa wood and learned a triangle can withstand more weight than other shapes.
  — Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019
• In reality, little balsa-wood sticks are fragile things, and the combination of phosphorous and potassium in the match head is prone to drying out and crumbling.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2017
• In 2011 a University of Calgary test found that subjects were quick to assign emotions and intentions to a piece of balsa wood operated with a joystick.
  — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
• Its moderate action is perfect for casting small plastic and balsa crankbaits, including Rapala’s No. 7 Shad Rap, which weighs 5/16 ounces.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
• Turbine blades typically have glass-fibre skins, balsa-wood cores and metal or carbon-fibre spars.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• Saturday's event at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve allows everyone to race small crafts made from balsa wood, competing for prizes and bragging rights.
  — Mary Colurso, AL.com, 9 July 2017
• Although sometimes dismissed as a bunch of guys in rubber suits pushing each other into balsa wood skyscrapers (and what’s wrong with that?!), the Godzilla series is a triumph of sci-fi world-building and practical effects.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• Outside of its optimal use cases, millimeter-wave’s fragility will probably leave it as the balsa wood of bandwidth solutions.
  — Rob Pegoraro, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024