How to Use lumberyard in a Sentence
lumberyard
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So many were cracked open that the air carried the scent of a lumberyard.
—John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2021
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Here, the sheet was sawed in half; cut yours to fit your space (or have the lumberyard do it).
—Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 30 Sep. 2017
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Howard took over his father’s lumberyard on the east side, and for years made a good living.
—Peter Orner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
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Clemente was found without his phone or wallet on him, in a section of the creek that fronts a lumberyard.
—Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
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An old-fashioned lumberyard with a mill workshop might be able to make it for you.
—Ricard Romanski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2020
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The 2 x 3-ft. windows are available at most lumberyards for about $60 apiece.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2017
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The list prompted the two friends to talk about the local lumberyard that used to be a horse barn and the office space that used to be a bowling alley and night club.
—Samantha Stetzer, The Seattle Times, 18 Dec. 2017
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Rutledge was born in Princeton, Missouri, the son of a schoolteacher and the owner of a lumberyard and hardware store.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2020
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This job’s 4½-inch crown came from a local lumberyard—still the best place to buy a wide selection of crown molding types.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
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Two anonymous artists carved the totem pole in Tacoma at a Vashon Island lumberyard.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
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New video of 2-alarm fire at an abandoned lumberyard near Snohomish.
—Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2019
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Sidewalks were boards from the lumberyard dismantled just to the north and other area teardowns.
—Darryl Levings, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
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Their analysis determined that Wilke sold eighty-three blocks of poached wood to the lumberyard.
—Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
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Then Souza drove by a lumberyard, and everyone frowned.
—Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
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Life in the Railroad Yards in the 1940s At the spurs—small railroads that lead into or away from factories, sawmills, lumberyards, and packing houses—the trains stopped.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
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And then freakish coastal storms washed out roads, rails and ports, breaking the supply chain between forest, sawmill and lumberyard.
—Bill Weir, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
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Huff’s team determine whether there was a genetic link between the felled trees in the Olympic National Forest and the wood that Wilke sold to the lumberyard?
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 July 2022
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At the spurs—small railroads that lead into or away from factories, sawmills, lumberyards, and packing houses—the trains stopped.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2018
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On a summer afternoon 40 years ago, my boss, Paul, returned from the lumberyard with more than lumber.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
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The property was once part of the Bonnie Brae estate owned by a Chicago lumberyard magnate.
—Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 24 May 2022
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Maybe the Jew-haters of Kazimierza Wielka had left me alone because our family owned a lumberyard there, and we were respected.
—Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2022
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His father, Willie, worked in a lumberyard, and his mother, Mary (Gilliam) Holt, was a homemaker who sometimes taught crocheting and worked as a nurse’s aide.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 June 2023
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His father, Noel, a bus driver before becoming the manager at a lumberyard, showed him the game.
—Ira Boudway, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
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Indeed, there were so many sets constructed of bare plywood and engineered wood that one wondered if the lumberyards of Paris have anything more than a wood chip left in stock.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
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These campfire tales — the funniest of which involves a lumberyard worker (Anthony Sonigo) blithely caught in a wood chipper — are the true heart of the film.
—Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
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Contact local lumberyards for names of local wood mills.
—James Dulley, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
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The house was built in 1951 from natural materials, including limestone and cedar, for Ray Woods, the owner of a lumberyard.
—Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
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Her father owned a wholesale lumberyard, and her mother was a homemaker.
—Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
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At the age of 18, Hougen followed his father into the lumber business, becoming the manager of a lumberyard in Edmond, N.D.
—Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
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Other notable stories told of a six-day West Coast air defense test scheduled for later in the week; a visit to the city by the head of the Presbyterian Church; and the end of a strike against local lumberyards.
—Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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