How to Use wooden in a Sentence

wooden

adjective

• The guest speaker was wooden and uninspiring.
• The blaze sent the wooden buildings to the riverbed below.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Using the handle of a wooden spoon, make 4 holes in the rice.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Use a wooden spoon to scrape up browned bits from the bottom.
  — Odette Williams, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• The two survivors were found Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf coast.
  — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2023
• To the left of the driver is a lever sprouting from the wooden floor that serves two functions.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
• To make: Start by hot gluing moss to a wooden wreath form.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
• The fires quickly claimed many of the city’s wooden buildings.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
• The wooden slats are wide and offer lots of shoe storage space.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• The wooden high chair his car seat was sitting on broke.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 2 July 2024
• Now, the work has been covered with plastic and wooden boards.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• This one holds 145 cans and offers a sleek wooden frame.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
• All of the knives and tools can be safely placed in the self-sharpening wooden knife block.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• Pinocchio’s nose isn’t all that’s wooden and too long here.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• Because this chime is hollow, rain and snow will pass right through and won’t warp the wooden frame.
  — Kate McGregor, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• First, cut the bananas in half, then let your children peel them and insert the wooden stick.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2023
• And why the weapons in the hands of the National Guard in the park are not wooden – but utterly real.
  — Nonna Stefanova, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• Turn off the oven, prop the door open slightly with the handle of a wooden spoon and allow meringues to cool gently in the oven for 1 hour.
  — Naomi Ross, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• Its back features a series of smooth wooden poles, each capped with a plush sphere.
  — John Wogan Laura Bannister Tariro Mzezewa Elissa Suh Dana Covit Jameson Montgomery, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The look of the new DAC has been improved and is now housed in thick, brushed aluminum case with wooden details.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• The strain grew far more severe when Hurricane Maria swept her wooden home off the face of the mountain in 2017.
  — Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• The equipment was packed into a wooden box on Jan. 10, then fastened to a pallet atop the flatbed haulage truck.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• Both posts showed some sort of wooden cabana in the background and rocky terrain.
  — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 31 July 2024
• Friends filed past her grave site, laying their hands on the glossy wooden coffin.
  — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Inside you will see Asian statues, plants, paintings on the wall and wooden chairs.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The trio comes in a handcrafted wooden box with a premium caviar spoon and key.
  — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Adult Alicent is cold and wooden, a far cry from her warm teenage self.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• Some of the graves bear wooden crosses, inscribed with the names of the dead and sometimes floral tributes.
  — Erin McLaughlin, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Although the carpet's been ripped up and the walls are paneled with wooden rods, the risers remain in the same configuration.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Oct. 2024
• Knick knacks watch over the table, including a wooden cheetah sculpture, a 1940s-era platter and an eye-popping vase.
  — Rob Ledonne, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024