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Recent Examples of firewood
Over the years, these figures have come to populate the village, hanging from swings, riding bicycles, gathering firewood, and silently greeting their flesh-and-blood neighbors.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In the backyard, boys and men chopped down trees to cart away for firewood.
—Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Aid groups have struggled to deliver food and supplies and say there are shortages of blankets, warm clothing and firewood.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Crystals instead of firewood Photo: Julie Soefer Skip firewood altogether.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In the backyard, boys and men chopped down trees to cart away for firewood.
—Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Aid groups have struggled to deliver food and supplies and say there are shortages of blankets, warm clothing and firewood.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Crystals instead of firewood Photo: Julie Soefer Skip firewood altogether.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firewood
Noun
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Straw bale houses fall into the same category as cordwood.—
John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 May 2022
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And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined.—
Robert Wilonsky,
Dallas News,
14 Jan. 2020
Noun
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His minimalist design leverages wood surfaces to evoke kanso.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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At 22, Gail gave birth alone and left her newborn in the woods.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Duties on lumber from Canada had already risen to 14.4% this summer after the expiration of a U.S.-Canada agreement on softwood lumber.—
Don Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kengo Kuma & Associates uses lumber for screens, scaffolds, and panels hung on a steel-frame pavilion.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At relativistic speeds — that is near the speed of light — time moves more slowly, which would mean the electron beam wouldn't have enough time to spread out, keeping the beam focused.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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At that moment, a bright white beam of sunlight came in through the porthole and struck Audrey’s left eye.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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