wood

Example Sentences

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There were few streetlamps here, spread far apart, but the hulking sign planted on the hill blinked brightly, first HOLLY, then WOOD, then LAND, before it started all over again.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

They would have tried it even then, but they were far above the belt of timber; they had matches—what boy has not?—but no WOOD.

From Tales of Trail and Town by Harte, Bret

Re-designed and much improved, furnishes power to PUMP, GRIND, CUT FEED, and SAW WOOD.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by Elverson, James

WOOD, a man very fond of playing jokes, met his friend, Mr. Stone, and at once inquired jocosely: "Hello, Stone, how are Mrs. Stone and all the little pebbles?"

From Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal by Various

SEE WOOD,     CASEY A.   The blockade of Germany after the     Armistice, 1918-1919.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office