How to Use timbered in a Sentence

timbered

adjective
  • Thick paving stones lined the courtyard, and water was cleared from the timbered roofs by stone rain spouts.
    Mark Stevenson, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Pools of it, rivulets of it, lapping lakes and freshets of it, in a green and timbered landscape — our eyes were always thirsty for the sight of it.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The plan was to ride to the ridge tops, then hunt down through the timbered draws and pockets while Cal and Linn took the horses back around to meet us below.
    Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The uncanny part was that the rectangle had the scale and timbered texture of a Cornell box.
    Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Guests will enjoy a prix fixe four-course meal Christmas Eve amid the timbered indoor/outdoor dining room that overlooks the 18th-hole of the golf course.
    Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The vineyards are some of the steepest in the world, and the river winds around its bends past little, ancient, half-timbered Germanic towns on the water’s edge.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Sitting high above Big Creek is a timbered area perfect for a country home or weekend cabin.
    kansascity, 19 May 2017
  • The Old Burlington in Chiswick, a riverside neighborhood in west London, is a quaint, half-timbered former-pub that is thought to date from the 16th century.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • When safe during the winter months, crappie and white bass can be productive in timbered creek channels in the upper part of the reservoir or near brush piles in the lower lake.
    Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The open lush grass pastures, mile long views, scenic ponds, babbling waterfall, timbered groves, and crystal clear year-round spring fed stream just cry out for an estate home to be built.
    Kansascity, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017
  • Schools needed to 'be more awake' Winnenden is an idyllic southern German town of rolling vineyards and half-timbered homes.
    Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2018
  • This long, narrow slash of rolling hills and pretty half-timbered towns between the Vosges on the west and the Rhine to the east has its share of great growers and winemakers, both older masters and young up-and-comers.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • His government bus took him to Strasbourg, a city of half-timbered houses on the German border and seat of the European Parliament.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The minister at the small timbered chapel pulled the vestment over the lures hanging from his fishing vest, rolled out a burgundy carpet, set up some fake flowers and declared them married.
    Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The disappearance had been especially swift in Alsace, a wine-growing region in eastern France where the hills are freckled with the red roofs of half-timbered homes.
    Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Founder Hermann Weis retained the buildings of a former Mennonite farm, placing the Vineland tasting room inside the soaring, log-timbered 1877 barn.
    Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • And yet the Mosel is one of the oldest, most beautiful wine regions in the world, home to small, charming villages with half-timbered houses and spectacular Riesling vineyards.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 27 June 2018
  • The exterior walls are stucco siding and half-timbered brick siding.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2017
  • The cozy, timbered room exists in a permanent state of imperishable romance.
    Robert Simonson, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Maison Martin Jund is a ramshackle yet historic half-timbered house with modest but spacious rooms (budget, www.martinjund.com).
    Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017
  • Göttingen, which was barely touched by Allied bombs during the war, retains a Teutonic quaintness, with its many half-timbered buildings.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • The half-timbered tavern is a hard find in modernist-loving Zurich, known more for its architectural austerity than its coziness.
    Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
  • Once the region’s prosperous capital, Troyes has stayed delightfully stuck in time, filled with slanting, centuries-old, half-timbered houses, giving it the feel of a Shakespearean set.
    Adam Leith Gollner, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
  • This sprawling, five-bedroom, five-bathroom home built in 1927 is loaded with elegant features: floor-to-ceiling leaded-glass windows, paneled walls, timbered ceilings, carved stone and window seats.
    Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 18 July 2019
  • Happy Landing Inn, for instance, is already delightful thanks to half-timbered construction and rounded doors but shines during Yuletide with a 9-foot tree, stockings, wreaths, and twinkle lights galore.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Dec. 2016
  • Best for everything Gazing across a timbered mountainside in midafternoon sun in Idyllwild, California, is nice even without sunglasses.
    Outside Online, 15 May 2018
  • The handsome brick and half-timbered Tudor was designed by architect Gerard R. Colcord for a prominent insurance executive.
    Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Many historical features, including decorative exterior brickwork, half-timbered details, leaded-pane windows and oak and maple floors, were preserved.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020

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