Example sentences for: lumber

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

  • Thus, the city dominated river traffic and prospered from a flourishing trade in fur, lumber, shipbuilding, tanneries, furniture, and textiles.

  • 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.

  • And, against all the odds of the terrain, it’s the route the railways chose to carry the riches of lumber, mining — and the first tourists — across the continent.

  • Past the municipal beach lies Playa La Madera, once a loading point for lumber — hence the name, which means “wood beach.”

  • Bob Packwood, who successfully lobbied on behalf of lumber mills and other small businesses for a cut in the estate tax.


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