How to Use particleboard in a Sentence

particleboard

noun

• That works, about as long as your particleboard stays in good shape.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• This unit has a durable steel frame, polyester canvas sling-style tiers, and a particleboard upper shelf.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• The glue is in the drawer front’s inner core, which is probably a type of particleboard, with veneers of solid wood on the front and back.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• This storage unit has a steel frame, a particleboard upper shelf, and polyester canvas slings for the bottom four tiers.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• Another way to reduce the cost of cabinetry is to use particleboard where no one will see it.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2017
• Nerissa waited for the door to close and listened for the sounds of her mother practicing with screws on particleboard.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• In some areas, there is hardly any margin for the imperfect pines that are pulped for paper and particleboard.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• It’s made of durable MDF particleboard and has a generous weight capacity of 220 pounds.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022
• Two particleboard boxes, made to stack precisely to the measurements of the cement blocks that support them, are filled with fist-sized chunks of ceramics and concrete mix.
  — Julia Couzens and Special To The Bee, sacbee, 19 Jan. 2018
• The Mantis, below, which was on display at this year’s RV Experience trade show, has birch shelving, not particleboard.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2019
• The new vulgarians are tearing down houses and putting up particleboard palaces.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 28 May 2015
• The ceilings are low, the lights fluorescent, the furniture is modern particleboard.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• The second gallery includes six oil paintings Dingle made by treating cheap sheets of particleboard as industrial strength paint-by-number sets.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• That’s living green. Cheaply made plastic or particleboard furniture (fast furniture) is likely to end up in a dump before long.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• The dangers of formaldehyde have long been known Formaldehyde is a colorless gas that’s used to make building materials like particleboard, plywood, and fiberboard — so it’s found in our houses and furniture.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 6 July 2018
• Made of water-resistant laminated particleboard, each base features a black marble-look finish and can hold about 4 pounds.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2020
• Yet Collins' Klamath Falls particleboard plant scored a 6-in-a-million risk, well under any risk threshold state regulators ever considered.
  — Rob Davis, OregonLive.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Engineered features a thin veneer layer of solid wood adhered on top of layers of plywood or high-density particleboard.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• Georgia-Pacific is closing its particleboard facility in Monroeville as part of a larger round of moves in Arkansas and Georgia.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 7 June 2019
• These days, there are many types of wood floors, including traditional strips of natural wood with interlocking tongue-and-groove edges and manufactured planks that have a thin layer of natural wood on top of particleboard.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• To reduce shipping costs, companies like IKEA have pioneered the use of lightweight materials like particleboard—a filler material that is to the woodworking industry what pink slime is to the meat industry.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2020
• One way was by using dual-density particleboard in its iconic Billy bookcases, which cut down on materials by 20%.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
• Formaldehyde is used in products ranging from particleboard to disinfectants and embalming fluid.
  — Heidi Vogt, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• Laminate countertop sheets, which are made using high-resolution digital prints of natural stone, can be glued right onto plywood or particleboard.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2017
• Although government regulations have reduced the amount of formaldehyde used in insulation and particleboard furniture, the sheer number of potential formaldehyde emitters found in the average home makes the chemical difficult to avoid.
  — Emily Main, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2017
• Description: Cabinet boxes consist of wood veneers adhered to plywood or furniture-grade particleboard.
  — Sarah Stebbins, ELLE Decor, 8 Apr. 2016
• Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, until recently was a common component of wood products from laminate flooring to particleboard tables, especially those imported from China.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2020
• Vanity cabinets are typically made with wood (better quality, more expensive) or particleboard (lower quality, less expensive) for the cabinet box and drawers.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024