Example sentences for: sawmill

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

  • Leon's father had a sawmill where he frequently spoke of dozy wood, a term seldom used on Times Square.

  • In a peaceful, green canalside setting disturbed only by perky Canada geese, notoriously loud honkers, you’ll find authentic pre-1867 buildings, from the simple timbered sawmill or old schoolhouse to the sophisticated brick-built Crysler Hall in the Palladian style favored by colonial land owners from Ontario to Alabama.

  • Akin to dozy is the term wany (or waney ), used to describe a board as cut at the sawmill, imperfect because it ran into bark of the log from which it was cut.

  • The waterwheel-driven sawmill still operates, as do a theater and an inn, the King’s Head, serving old-fashioned meals.

  • Once again from the sawmill or more correctly the planing mill, the term pickwick in the following sense has nothing to do with Dickens.


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