How to Use lumberyard in a Sentence

lumberyard

noun

• So many were cracked open that the air carried the scent of a lumberyard.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An old-fashioned lumberyard with a mill workshop might be able to make it for you.
  — Ricard Romanski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2020
• The 2 x 3-ft. windows are available at most lumberyards for about $60 apiece.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Rutledge was born in Princeton, Missouri, the son of a schoolteacher and the owner of a lumberyard and hardware store.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• New video of 2-alarm fire at an abandoned lumberyard near Snohomish.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Sidewalks were boards from the lumberyard dismantled just to the north and other area teardowns.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
• Their analysis determined that Wilke sold eighty-three blocks of poached wood to the lumberyard.
  — Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Then Souza drove by a lumberyard, and everyone frowned.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The property was once part of the Bonnie Brae estate owned by a Chicago lumberyard magnate.
  — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• His father, Noel, a bus driver before becoming the manager at a lumberyard, showed him the game.
  — Ira Boudway, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• Contact local lumberyards for names of local wood mills.
  — James Dulley, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Her father owned a wholesale lumberyard, and her mother was a homemaker.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024