timber
Example Sentences
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A more accurate metaphor would be credit termites — insects that infest and destroy structural timbers.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
The exposed timbers were discovered at the National Trust-owned Studland Bay, in Dorset, on 28 January.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
When its timbers rose in 1576, the chances of world-historical literary achievements happening there were remote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
The place was auctioned off down to its timbers in October 1946.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
All the timbers of La Belle Sauvage were sound, though the paint was beginning to peel, and Malcolm thought he might scrape off the old name and go over it again, better.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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