How to Use firewood in a Sentence

firewood

noun

• They chopped enough firewood to last the winter.
• That is a great trait in firewood, but not for the walls of a home.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2022
• This is all in one long take, at the end of which the man has a neat pile of firewood.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• The liquor, like the food and firewood piled in the corner, is ferried in on the back of a haul sled.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Make sure to keep stacks of firewood at least 20 feet from the house, as mice like to nest in the piles.
  — Beth Kaufman, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2021
• Store firewood up off the ground and away from the house, says Mengak.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2024
• Stacks of wood crates and piles of firewood made for walls within the camp.
  — Vadim Ghirda, ajc, 8 Mar. 2022
• The price of the firewood that many people now use to cook has doubled.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• Here’s the same load of firewood placed correctly in the tray.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s free firewood on the Southwest Side that needs to be hauled away.
  — Nick Shepherd, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022
• Use high speed for felling or to buck the trunk into firewood lengths.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• Rows of white oak and pecan firewood are stacked floor-to-ceiling.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 14 July 2022
• Well, there’s that view from the window over the sink of our pile of firewood that needs squaring up.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• Shvalov watched YouTube videos to learn how to drill a well, erect a house and cut and dry his own firewood.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• The old mulberry tree had burned and died and been cut down to a stump and was now used as a place to axe firewood.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Try a farm stay with firewood heat, tasty country food, and hot spring baths.
  — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2023
• Only dead trees and downed limbs could be cut for firewood).
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• It’s made for firewood, but can be converted for those who need the ease of propane.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• That zone should be kept clear of debris, firewood, plants or mulch.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• Wrap around your firewood and stick one end through the other for a quick grab handle.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 1 May 2024
• Eldridge warned us that the gravel bars had all been picked clean of firewood.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• An addition was added to the east side of the building that now houses the smokers and the firewood used to cook the meat.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
• Come prepared with food and firewood, as the nearest stores are 12 miles away.
  — Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2022
• In the same account, locals hacked up some vines for firewood.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Store firewood and propane tanks away from any structure.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2021
• Katie Ridder keeps the firewood nice and neat with some funky antique andirons.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2022
• The disease travels much quicker when the spores hitch a ride on firewood, Dube said.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• The camp had containers of frozen rain water, a wood stove, firewood, and food.
  — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021
• Walks, pathways, patios, decks and firewood can be kept in this zone.
  — Bryce Young Christopher Moran, WIRED, 20 July 2024
• Turns out mulch is second to lumber, with firewood in third and landfills in dead last.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024