balsa

Example Sentences

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"My mother gave me her grandfather's hammer and some nails and I had some very soft wood called balsa wood so I'd hammer nails into it and make sculptures," he said.

From BBC

"The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I'll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it."

From BBC

Guided by laser markings, the crew is lining the sides with panels of balsa wood.

From New York Times

We also found trees that are well known in the forests of South America like Hura, or sandbox tree; Anacardium, a type of cashew tree; and Ochroma, or balsa.

From Salon

A toy bus from Carolina Herrera, and a balsa wood D.I.Y. airplane complete with airsickness bag from Louis Vuitton, that seemed to symbolize a time when we were free to travel without thought.

From New York Times