shavings

Example Sentences

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Our classroom smelled faintly of pencil shavings and cafeteria biscuits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

An audit by the FAA also confirmed that metal shavings were present beneath the floors of a number of aircraft.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025

Our spa attendant for the day, Samundra Sutcliffe, lodged a large pitchfork into the vat shavings and turned it over on top of itself as steam emanated from the pile.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

Once described by comedian John Hodgeman as tasting of “pencil shavings and heartbreak,” Jeppson’s Malört is a polarizing wormwood and anise-flavored liqueur that’s kind of a secret handshake among Chicagoans.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

Here’s a rolled rug, its hollow filled with what smell like wood shavings: mice.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr