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Example sentences for: lumber

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The spruce, fir, and cedar provide three-quarters of Canada’s construction lumber and considerable quantities of wood pulp and paper.
Anyway, nothing drives me crazier than to watch one of these monstrosities lumber through Manhattan traffic when I know-- know --that the toughest terrain that thing is going to see is the gravel-covered driveway of the owner's summer home in Westport.
When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)
The choice went to Bytown, a puny lumber depot renamed Ottawa after the river on which it stood, diplomatically situated between Upper and Lower Canada.
5. "The Federal Reserve's latest beige-book regional economic survey declares the impact of Y2K concerns to be uneven across the country, although one lumber producer said Y2K worries had prompted customers to hold off buying wood until the new year.