Example sentences for: firewood

How can you use “firewood” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Urbanites rob the patrimony of these rustics who know Chippendale only as the name of a strip club; hayseeds bleed city-dwellers over a piece of furniture they'd otherwise use as firewood.

  • Observing the Englishmen cut down entire forests to obtain firewood, the Indians reasonably concluded that a shortage of fuel must have driven these wancomplexioned visitors to their shores.

  • Had this cold-natured tribe, the Indians wondered, used up every last twig, tree-stump, and stick of firewood in Europe and come to the New World in search of more?

  • Even in the vast open spaces of the Rajasthan desert or the Deccan plateau of central India, people appear everywhere, a tribesman on camel-back or lone woman holding her headdress in her teeth to keep out the dust as she carries a huge pitcher of water or a bundle of firewood on her head.

  • At the same time, almost total dependency on firewood for fuel has deforested the heavily populated middle mountain ranges and led to erosion, landslides, and loss of soil for agriculture.


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