How to Use cordage in a Sentence
cordage
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Teach them how to make a friction fire with sticks and cordage.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
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Learn what plants are good for rope making and learn how to make cordage.
—charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
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There are lots of hooks and taut lines of cordage to hang up wet gear, and the outdoor firepit is a great place to get some fresh air.
—David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
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The simplest cordage doesn’t need to be braided, twisted, or sliced.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
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The ends of each bow limb can be wound with strong cordage, or covered by a protective sleeve.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020
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This is where cordage production comes into the game as an unsung hero.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
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Plants for fiber Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) has strong and flexible fibers from leaves; only the fibers along the outside of each leaf were used to make cordage.
—Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
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After all, that stretch of cordage may be all that stands between you and your phone dropping overboard or into a fast current.
—Field & Stream, 5 Jan. 2021
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Stone blades also come in handy for peeling bark to make cordage, and sawing and whittling other survival tools.
—Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
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This is where cordage production comes in as the unsung hero of backcountry survival.
—Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2020
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The cordage plants were the same types that Lee’s mother, Elizabeth, used in her traditional weaving.
—Soleil Ho, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
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Some came from wood or cordage still attached to spearpoints; others came from charcoal, wood, or bone found at mines and human burials.
—David Malakoff, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2021
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The continent’s earliest native people ate the fruit and even used the tree’s fibrous inner bark for cordage and textiles.
—Andrew Moore, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
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To get started, suspend a line of cordage between two trees or similar supports.
—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
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And for the more plant-knowledgeable survivor, inner bark fiber from certain trees can be twisted into two ply cordage of any length and thickness.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
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And for the more plant-knowledgeable survivor, inner bark fiber from certain trees can be twisted into two-ply cordage of any length and thickness.
—Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2020
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Improvements in rope have made the cordage stronger and therefore harder for whales to escape, leading to a surge in the number of extreme cases of entanglement.
—Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
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Tightly lash the ridge pole with strong cordage and consider supporting it with by propping it up on additional vertical logs lashed to the trees on either side.
—Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2020
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At the beginning of his journey into making a burden basket, Manuel practiced with cotton cordage to work on the weaving technique, an important part the process.
—AZCentral.com, 2 July 2021
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If not, a little duct tape and cordage will give them some repair options without giving them too many opportunities to hurt themselves.
—Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
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The blanket might have been created all at once, but the authors surmise that additional lengths of cordage and feather batches were probably added over time.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2020
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Stay for a cordage-making workshop led by Chumash jewelry designer Lea Valenzuela.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
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Manuel carefully coils cordage made with agave fibers into a traditional O’odham burden basket.
—AZCentral.com, 17 Dec. 2020
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Visitors will also be able to participate in outdoor demonstrations like tule mat weaving, acorn grinding and cordage making.
—Alex Schechter, New York Times, 14 May 2021
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Named for the path of life-sustaining plants carried in voyaging canoes with Polynesian voyagers, canoe plants were important for all life’s vital needs: food, medicine, fabric, containers, and cordage.
—National Geographic, 2 July 2019
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In fact, early examples of cordage could count as an indication of a much more intensive fiber industry, potentially involving the production of fabrics, bags, baskets and nets.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
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