How to Use woodpile in a Sentence

woodpile

noun

• In the winter, the driveway is cleared and the woodpile is full.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• Patrice went outside, walked over to the woodpile, pulled the ax from the stump, and split a piece of log.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• The snow out there behind my woodpile is up to my knees.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
• Rats also love woodpiles and will nest in them over the summer.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2017
• There is a free woodpile in Tarpley that has leftover wood of all sizes and shapes.
  — Nick Shepherd, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022
• In Scandinavia, it is said that the way to choose a partner is to look at their woodpile.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
• First, there’s the hunt in the woods, or rooting through a backyard woodpile for three or four perfect sticks.
  — Donna Erickson, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
• Brush and woodpiles bring all the predators to the yard, so keep them cleaned up to avoid unwanted invaders.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The farmer, Mr. Janzen, with the help of two laborers, spent the day digging roots from the earth, between smoking woodpiles.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, Claire Rigby and Jeremy White, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
• Clean up areas near your home where rodents can live, such as woodpiles.
  — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 26 June 2018
• From a ground cover for a small tent to a rain and snow fly for a hunting camp or a cover for the woodpile over the winter, this tarp can do it all.
  — Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Clean up areas near your home where rodents can live, such as woodpiles and lots with tall grasses and weeds.
  — Michael Katz, idahostatesman, 12 June 2018
• Ticks, too, who live in the great outdoors, often lurk surprisingly close to home – in brush, woodpiles and freshly mowed lawn.
  — Dina Ibrahim, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2017
• Start a Wood Pile Besides giving you a place to stash logs for the bonfire or fireplace, woodpiles and brush piles give fireflies a moist, dark place to lay eggs and rest during the day.
  — Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023
• This might mean installing a fine-screen mesh over existing vents or removing a woodpile leaning against the house.
  — WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• The only thing Mike loves more than describing a Thanksgiving menu is building a woodpile.
  — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 7 June 2021
• A woodpile of fat polenta fries, salty and hot, goes nicely with a lush Gorgonzola dip and marinara as options.
  — Kendall Hamersly, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• Piringer said snakes typically like to seek shelter in woodpiles.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• Most of them involve off-screen humans: a dreamy image of a woodpile against a blue sky is gradually overwhelmed by the sound of chainsaws closing in.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• My woodpile reference from 1994 came from a woman who was carrying in firewood at her Nenana home in May when a bat fell from a log, then seemed to warm up and fly away.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
• Build jumps off an existing foundation like a woodpile.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2015
• Most yellow jackets make their nests underground, so they are commonly found near trees, hollow logs, and woodpiles.
  — Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• Ticks can be found in our backyards, under leaves, on ground cover, around walls and near structures and woodpiles where rodents and other small mammals are active, Molaei said.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 23 May 2017
• Move construction material, trash, and woodpiles at least 30 feet away from the home and other outbuildings.
  — Rose Meily, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• But this year, the storm, which buried the organization’s woodpile under snow, has rendered Re-Member unable to reach families in need.
  — Amanda Su, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The mountain pygmy possum is so rare that it was known only from fossils until 1966, when skiers on Mount Hotham in Victoria, Australia, found one scampering around the woodpile at their ski lodge.
  — Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
• Another, beside a woodpile, wore a sheepskin-and-leather jacket that was speckled with unmelted snow.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• Residents of the Canadian town also brought over trucks full of firewood for Hyder residents who had relied on a woodpile in Canada, Stewart said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2021
• Brown was resigned to simply burning these woodpiles, but air-quality restrictions had prevented him from doing even that.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Assembling a decent woodpile, however, is always an end in itself.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024