Example sentences for: floorboards

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

  • The sturdy interior of wide, rough-hewn floorboards and massive pinewood roofbeams is fitted out from the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts with antique Québec furniture, rugs, lanterns, clocks, and porcelain appropriate to the life of a wealthy 18th-century businessman.

  • A man they had planted in the bakery had managed to hide under the floorboards several bottles of arsenic, which had been tested on a cat in Paris.

  • Ripping up anything means destroying it, often by severing the connective tissues, from ripping up floorboards to ripping up a draft card.

  • Babies bang wooden spoons on overturned saucepans; grannies rock so silently you can hear the creak of floorboards and hip bones.


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