timber

Example Sentences

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The budget would shift the agency’s focus toward domestic timber production and wildfire risk mitigation and response, and away from more recent turns toward conservation and recreation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

More premium design options including fitted booth seating and "reeded timber panelling" were also chosen despite the project increasing in cost.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The timber and wood products play is having a pedestrian 2026 so far, with a return of 2%.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Also present at one of the meetings was another Chinese citizen who was under house arrest while being investigated for alleged links to an illegal timber network.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Even the timber for Malai canoes was obtained by trade from villagers on nearby Umboi Island, since Malai does not have trees big enough to be fashioned into canoes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond