How to Use sawmill in a Sentence

sawmill

noun

• Over the years, the sets have ranged from a Mayan temple to a sawmill.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 25 Sep. 2017
• Heinz led with a firm but fair hand in the woods, at the sawmill and at home.
  — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
• In that year, a land grant was issued to put up a sawmill on the site.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 June 2021
• The sawmill, which opened in 1947, is like so many here: a survivor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• The town was laid out around an old sawmill at the end of the 19th century.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2017
• The sawmill nearly took the arm of a high school football player.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Saahil: rhymes with sawmill, or at least that gets you 90 percent there.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
• Site work at the new Pike County sawmill is scheduled to start on March 15.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Lumberjacks felled trees and floated logs to the sawmill to make boards faster.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Harding built the town's first sawmill on the south bank of the lake, along with a three-room house for his family.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
• Rain and snow had left damp patches on the exterior cladding, which still had the scent of the sawmill.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Ivory, the son of a sawmill owner, grew up Catholic in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
• Brooks was working at a sawmill when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940.
  — Leah Willingham and Rebecca Santana, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
• The town is dotted with sawmills that are the backbone of its economy.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
• In the second, a 16-year-old boy was killed when he got pinned in a wood-stacking machine at a sawmill.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Hardy and Brown concluded, was to hire loggers to clear out small trees -- and that meant there had to be a sawmill to take the logs.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
• Wood chips, byproduct of area sawmills, bound for China pulp mills.
  — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• In the late 1700s, sawmills began popping up in Michigan.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• When the logging industry collapsed in the 1950s, one sawmill bought the other and shut it down.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2017
• The tanks — which were empty — weren’t damaged, but the blast blew out all the windows in a wood storage warehouse and in parts of the sawmill.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
  — Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• The student body shrank decades ago after a local sawmill closed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• When land is logged, the thick, straight trunks typically go to a sawmill that churns out things like two-by-fours.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• The old mill-dam was formerly the site of an up-down sawmill which was moved to Old Sturbridge Village.
  — Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2022
• But nationwide, the Obama era saw 7,221 new jobs in the sawmill sector.
  — Josh Boak, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• My family worked with the ejido, which had its own sawmill.
  — Outside Online, 25 Sep. 2024
• Bad Bunny plays in the background as Joe dismembers a dead body at a sawmill.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
• Patrick Jones dropped out of high school in 2013, then worked in package handling for FedEx and as extra help at a sawmill.
  — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• The man known across south Arkansas as Mr. Garland and his uncle had built a sawmill in 1907.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• So Taylor worked to refurbish the sawmill and crack down on shady sourcing.
  — Tim McDonnell, National Geographic, 17 June 2019

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024