plank

Like I said earlier, we should mind the plank in our own eye first.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

A key plank in this emerging strategy involves the most populous Democratic state in the country: California.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Those flights represent a key plank of FlyDubai’s reach and appeal—the airline will go places Western carriers can’t or won’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Rhys: I don’t do much with Instagram but my algorithm is generally older men showing you how to kind of spile a garboard plank next to a keel, things like that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

On the floor along the sides of the plank counters there were kegs of nails, and kegs of round, gray shot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Common examples include wall squats, planks, and handgrip exercises.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

"Parents came from all over looking for their children. That's when I saw a huge fire engulfing our school built of wooden planks," he added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

In the beginning, Peck says it was easy to find trees and hire a mobile sawmill to cut them into planks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

She crawled under the planks, covering her nose with her hand.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island off the northern mainland.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025

I planked on the lake shore and did box jumps onto the deck steps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

Art can lose something when you have to explain it, but Hogan planked out the statue’s meaning for anyone too dense to get it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2016

And most importantly, will we still be amusingly able to closely approximate it by tossing a gazillion nails on a wood planked floor?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2015

In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The pair are split on who is the toughest: Gosling immediately says it is his co-star, joking that she was "planking" in a Pilates session the day before while everyone else was having a nap.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were painkilling and planking.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

What they brought was a piece of brick that was likely part of the ship’s steam boiler, and planking from its hull.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

Suffice to say, you won't catch Charles Barkley planking anytime soon, but it's clear his true vendetta lies with vegetables, the insidious little tubulars that infiltrate our bodies minds with without us even knowing it.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 3, 2020

Two of the men lowered over the side the seven small leather trunks that held all of Kit’s belongings and piled them, one beside the other, on the wet planking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare