How to Use deadwood in a Sentence

deadwood

noun

• She's determined to get the deadwood out of the company.
• The result has been a buildup of deadwood and dry brush.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
• Wait to see if plants leaf out or re-sprout, then prune off deadwood.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• In the short term, Inter may try once more to streamline their squad, to shed some of the deadwood that was up for sale last summer.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• When the coach arrived from Bayern Munich in 2016, there was a lot of deadwood hanging around the Etihad.
  — SI.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• By then, the current deadwood will have dropped off the Yankees’ $216 million payroll.
  — Filip Bondy, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2016
• The camera wanders slowly over dirt and deadwood, scrub grass and scattered rock.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• He's made some good decisions in three tidy signings, and shipped out a fair bit of the deadwood to start United on their road to a total cleanse.
  — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Flames along the ground eliminated deadwood, duff and grasses, yet spared trees.
  — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
• To do will require some clearing of deadwood from Ernesto Valverde's title winning squad.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2018
• What is even better the amount of money secured over deadwood, Carl Jenkinson for £3m?
  — SI.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• The Blaugrana are on a mission to remove deadwood from the squad this summer, and the Toffees are one of a handful of clubs eager to snap up a number of deals ahead of the new season.
  — SI.com, 7 July 2018
• Also stay clear of plants that produce fine, dry or dead leaves or needles, as well as those that accumulate deadwood within the plant.
  — oregonlive, 2 June 2021
• The eating of bark kills trees — allowing sunny clearings for plants, and new homes for insects that live in deadwood, which are then sources of food for birds and other mammals.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• One of Neil’s most celebrated trees, a subalpine fir, has a sharp spire of deadwood rising high above the foliage mass, like a skyscraper poking through clouds.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• This tiered system rewards the best, encourages the middle and justifies moving the deadwood out.
  — WSJ, 18 July 2017
• Everyone else is still around because United have failed to remove the rotting deadwood.
  — SI.com, 8 July 2019
• There were no concerning casualties for Barça during the summer, with the Catalans clearing out the deadwood in their squad.
  — SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• The freedom to cut deadwood is a competitive advantage for the Pack and contributed mightily to the past three decades of success.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 3 Aug. 2021
• This cost-effective approach has helped Alaska largely avoid the problem, common in the lower 48 states, of forests that are overgrown or have too much deadwood.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• The arrival of the emerald ash borer has killed hundreds of trees in suburban Maryland, providing woodpeckers with deadwood and also loads of grubs to feed on.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• There are also fears that the deadwood could fuel catastrophic wildfires.
  — Scott Smith, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2017
• United offloaded deadwood for a world-class winger, while Arsenal signed a player capable of great performances at the expense of someone who could have left for free.
  — SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Selling Matic would represent a further cleanse of the deadwood that has characterised the Solskjaer era, although doing it any sooner than summer would leave the squad too thin.
  — SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Pellegrini may have to shift some of the deadwood first though, as reports suggest Real Madrid could demand as much as €50m for their prized asset, with Los Blancos seemingly in no hurry to sell.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2018
• Arsenal will also be expected to be busy on the departures front, as the club prepares to offload deadwood, as well as send promising youngsters out on loan for more certainty on game time.
  — SI.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• After many seasons relentlessly trying to rid themselves of their deadwood, this transfer window seems to be the most fruitful for the Gunners in terms of outgoing transfers.
  — SI.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The sculpture was a surprisingly delicate rendering of a deer crafted by 13-year-old artist Elizabeth Gutierrez from scraps of deadwood she and her brother William, 8, collected in the park.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The resulting deadwood would be hauled out by truck and even helicopter to new biomass facilities and private timber mills to be transformed into electricity, boards and other products.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2021
• Fire managers including Kobziar support using prescribed burns to clear out deadwood and underbrush that would otherwise become a wildfire’s fuel.
  — WIRED, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024