How to Use pulpwood in a Sentence

pulpwood

noun
  • With so many men lost to the war, the agricultural and pulpwood industries in the region had suffered.
    Nedra Rhone, ajc, 23 May 2018
  • Conifers also are valuable to the forest industry as pulpwood and lumber.
    John Myers, Twin Cities, 25 May 2017
  • In 1929, when a timber cruiser who was mapping a giant pulpwood sale on Admiralty Island shot a bear and then was killed by it, the anti-bear rhetoric reached a boiling point.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020
  • But after subtracting logging and trucking costs, Mr. McDaniel estimates that low pulpwood prices would have left him with just $3 a ton.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The order limits the movement of ash trees for planting and ash tree products such as logs, pulpwood, lumber and firewood from areas that are considered likely to harbor the pest.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The two suspects — who at the time of the crime in 1983 worked as laborers in the local pulpwood mills — were spotted by multiple witnesses talking to Coggins outside a gas station that was just across the street from People’s Choice.
    Christian Boone, ajc, 17 June 2018
  • The County informed the owners of the rail yard that the operations violated its existing zoning of I-3, with a restrictive covenant that limited the property to use as a pulpwood yard.
    Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The property was not rezoned before its use changed, and still carried the zoning designation for a pulpwood (timber) yard which officials say is not compatible with its current usage.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The vast majority was fueled by palm oil and other agriculture such as coffee, but pulpwood plantations have also replaced large sections of rainforest.
    NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Worldwide, paper recycling already shrinks demand for pulpwood from forests and plantations by 484 million metric tons (MMT) annually.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'pulpwood.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: