Example sentences for: timber

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

  • The first is a grimly sardonic portrait of Alaska as a kind of Third World melting pot--full of desperate poverty and crime and on the verge of a transition to a tourist-based economy in which the interior will be cleared of timber but an illusion of wildness maintained.

  • They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, “Island of Timber. ”

  • He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi.

  • The cathead is a heavy piece of timber projecting from the bows of a vessel for hauling anchors fitted with a stock into position clear of the ship's side.

  • Excluded from the definition of land are the natural resources (that is, depletable resources such as mineral deposits and petroleum; renewable resources such as timber, and the outer-continental shelf resources) related to land.


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