Example sentences for: sandalwood

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

  • The final hall contains the Lama Temple’s most revered statue, a 23-m (75-ft) image of the Buddha carved from a Tibetan sandalwood tree, its head peeking out of the pavilion’s third story.

  • Prosperity was based entirely on the entrepot trade: handling textiles from India, spices from Indonesia, silk and porcelain from China, gold and pepper from Sumatra, camphor from Borneo, sandalwood from Timor, and Malay tin from Perak.

  • Wood carvings vary from ro sewood elephants or sandalwood camels to the Kashmiris’ finely fretted walnut, created in the style of the screens on the Srinagar houseboats.

  • They come in several hundred varieties, but the best known folding fans are made of fragrant sandalwood or black paper.

  • By 1825, Hawaii’s sandalwood forests had been thoroughly cut away, too, and non-native flora and fauna were imported to fill in, altering the landscape of paradise.


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