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Lumber is an English word with synonyms like timber or drop. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Lumber in a sentence

Lumber meaning

  1. Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
  2. Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
  3. Useless or cumbrous material.

Synonyms of Lumber

timber strike down drop fell log walk pound baseball equipment bat baseball bat building material cut down

Using Lumber

  • The main meaning on this page is: Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. | Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. | Useless or cumbrous material.
  • Useful related words include: timber, strike down, drop, fell.
  • In the example corpus, lumber often appears in combinations such as: the lumber, of lumber, lumber and.

Context around Lumber

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Lumber

  • In this selection, "lumber" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, hardwood, forrester, canadian, prices, retailer and yard stand out and add context to how "lumber" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and nelson lumber are on and build a lumber mill in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lumber" sits close to words such as abnormal, apologise and arteta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lumber

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

After much mishap he concludes: “It is lumber, man – all lumber! (11 words)

Lumber's nominal dimensions are larger than the actual standard dimensions of finished lumber. (14 words)

Conifex Timber, Inc engages in the manufacture of structural grade dimension lumber and generation of bio-energy. (17 words)

Many woodworking and lumber businesses in the county, such as Chips in Zion Crossroads, Foxwood Inc. in Trevilians or Dominion Pallet Inc. in Apple Grove, grew in part because of an ample supply of lumber in Louisa and other parts of the region. (43 words)

Guyana’s number one lumber retailer, Forrester Lumber Yard and popular Trophy & Engraving Store, Trophy Stall, has undoubtedly pledged their support to the upcoming “Opening Day Stakes” carded for this Sunday 12 March, 2023 at the Rising Sun Turf Club. (40 words)

Forestry Minister Bruce Ralston said the forestry industry has been hit with overlapping challenges including plummeting lumber prices, a decline in the allowable cut to the end of the beetle kill harvest and unprecedented wildfires across the province. (38 words)

After much mishap he concludes: “It is lumber, man – all lumber! (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

Guyana’s number one lumber retailer, Forrester Lumber Yard and popular Trophy & Engraving Store, Trophy Stall, has undoubtedly pledged their support to the upcoming “Opening Day Stakes” carded for this Sunday 12 March, 2023 at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

Westervelt said it was spending $190 million to build a lumber mill in Alabama because President Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber imports in 2017.

After much mishap he concludes: “It is lumber, man – all lumber!

Many woodworking and lumber businesses in the county, such as Chips in Zion Crossroads, Foxwood Inc. in Trevilians or Dominion Pallet Inc. in Apple Grove, grew in part because of an ample supply of lumber in Louisa and other parts of the region.

The roll spilled lumber across the eastbound lanes causing traffic to be detoured for several hours until the lumber was removed from the road.

Each ship costs one lumber and one wool to create (lumber for the hull and wool for the sails).

In the United Kingdom, the word lumber is rarely used in relation to wood, and timber is almost universally used in its place; but lumber has several other meanings in Britain, including unused or unwanted items.

It immediately clarifies that the lumber is not yet milled, avoiding confusion with milled lumber which is measured as actual thickness after machining.

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Lumber's nominal dimensions are larger than the actual standard dimensions of finished lumber.

Most hardwood lumber kilns are side-loader kilns in which fork trucks are used to load lumber packages into the kiln.

The result is a more precise understanding of the strength of each piece of lumber than is possible with visually graded lumber, which allows designers to use full-design strength and avoid overbuilding.

And so we’re seeing imports of lumber from Europe heading into the United States, I think, is something that’s impacted and kept a damper here.

Animal Rescue Committee of Slave Lake shelter, a bit of Kal Tire, and Nelson Lumber are on airport property.

As it stands, lumber used for construction must first be graded — or assessed and categorized — by a third-party agency, meaning it leaves the local area before getting to a contractor.

As shown on page 25, our current and quarter-to-date average sales realizations for Lumber and OSB are both moderately lower than the fourth quarter averages.

But again, you’re just not going to see that to the extent that lumber prices stay at a lower level.

Conifex Timber, Inc engages in the manufacture of structural grade dimension lumber and generation of bio-energy.

Forestry Minister Bruce Ralston said the forestry industry has been hit with overlapping challenges including plummeting lumber prices, a decline in the allowable cut to the end of the beetle kill harvest and unprecedented wildfires across the province.

Fred Anderson, owner of Anderson Lumber, provided a space for them to chainsaw and carve their shoes.

Hardwoods Distribution Inc is a Canada-based company engaged in the wholesale distribution of hardwood lumber and related sheet good and specialty products.

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Common combinations with lumber

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lumber" in a sentence?
An example: "Guyana’s number one lumber retailer, Forrester Lumber Yard and popular Trophy & Engraving Store, Trophy Stall, has undoubtedly pledged their support to the upcoming “Opening Day Stakes” carded for this Sunday 12 March, 2023 at the Rising Sun Turf Club." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lumber" from authentic English texts.
What does "lumber" mean?
Lumber means: Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
What are synonyms of "lumber"?
Common synonyms of "lumber" include: timber, strike down, drop, fell, log, walk, pound, baseball equipment. Plus 4 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "lumber" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "lumber", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.