How to Use sawdust in a Sentence

sawdust

noun

• Even the sawdust on the floor reminded me of the sand on the beach.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The ones in the stores are grown on sawdust blocks or in compost.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• The eatery was known for its Western decor and sawdust on the floor.
  — azcentral, 4 Nov. 2014
• The perfume of sawdust and the curls that fall from your plane will sweeten the hours.
  — Ellen Bass, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Agents have found migrants in the backs of dump trucks and buried in sawdust.
  — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• There appears to be sawdust at the base of the tree, and I am concerned about the tree’s health.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
• This one goes out to the dads who love to spend their Sundays in the garage smelling sawdust.
  — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
• These small chips build up and result in a pile of coarse sawdust at the base of a tree.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
• Next to them are bulky bags of sawdust shipped up from the Lower 48.
  — Zach Hughes, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
• Five strides up hill, then time for thrill. Pick up sawdust cube and be deft.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• Garage floors deal with a ton of abuse, from hot tires and dripping oil to sawdust and dirt.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2016
• The 24-hour pee area, whose sawdust is freshened hourly, costs a one-time fee of $20 per dog.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
• Cut dahlia stems to one inch and store the tubers in the clump in sawdust or at the bottom of paper bags.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Look for large, black ants as well as the tell-tell sawdust-like debris, called frass.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2017
• It was placed in a box and covered in sawdust taken from the many tree trimmings at the park.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• At the Jones home, Jason Jones picked up pieces of bark the tree had shed to reveal little piles of sawdust at the base of the tree.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021
• There’s a bunch of sawdust all over the place, and every wall has a piece of IKEA furniture nailed to it.
  — Chas Gillespie, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• Leave the fish and sawdust layers in place, and fill the bucket to the top with water and cap with a tight-fitting lid.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2021
• There was the teenage barman Mikey Reilly with his pink cheeks and sawdust crew cut.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The floor was covered with sawdust, and the servers were wearing gold-rush era costumes.
  — Yvonne Krumrey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
• Each day 10 men shared one pound of cheese and a loaf of German rye bread made mostly of sawdust.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2020
• The smell of sawdust fills the air as Ukrainians build trenches on the border with Belarus.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Blow all of the sawdust out of the holes, then fill each of them with full-strength broadleafed weedkiller (containing 2,4-D).
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Or, dig tubers out of their soil and store them in sawdust, again in the cool location.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Move the door to the garage, workshop, shed, or any other area where sawdust won't be an issue.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2023
• Both sides give off the dull, musty smells of work-glove function: stale sawdust and grease pierced with top notes of gasoline.
  — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
• Make sure to sweep and vacuum the work area to clean up any sawdust, scraps, or debris.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022
• Town elders tell of using saws to cut big blocks of ice, put them in the barn and cover them with sawdust.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
• Membership ballooned and, to accommodate the growing crowds, the church put up a series of old-timey canvas tents with sawdust floors.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Piles of sawdust or frass beneath the holes indicate active tunneling.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024