Words similar to wooden

Example sentences for: wooden

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

When the police control unruly mobs by wielding wooden batons (lathi in Hindi), they make a “lathi-charge.”
The displays detail the bravery of individuals who fought fires in the once mostly wooden old town.
The beach is reached across a long, nostalgic wooden bridge that crosses wetlands and bird sanctuaries.
To see how the Dutch of a later era lived, climb the cobbled street of Hollander Slope (number 5 tram to the Ishibashi stop), where you’ll see some red-brick and wooden clapboard houses with colonial-style verandahs and — a rare sight atop houses in Japan — chimneys.
Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).