Sentence examples for a wide plank from inspiring English sources

The C.F.S., as chicken fried steak is known among the local food maniacs, is a wide plank of pounded, floured and fried beef, served with an immense bowl of peppery cream gravy on the side.

Others were equipped with engines, and this led to the design of special types in which rounded side frames replaced the straight frames of the regular fishing dory, producing a hull with an almost round bottom and a wide plank keel.

A couch might work, or you might need to make one yourself out of a pair of books and a wide plank.

The master bedroom, at the top of the stairs, has a wide-plank yellowwood floor, a peaked ceiling with exposed beams, and a fireplace.

With that brick oven, those cast-iron serving vessels, a wide-plank wood floor in the front dining room and a cobblestone floor in the back, August layers rustic accent atop rustic accent, to the point where you just might forget you aren't in Provence or Tuscany, at least until a hipster poster girl like the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal strolls in, as she did on that recent night.

The house has an enclosed sun porch, wide plank floors, a wooden deck in the small yard, a matching garden shed and perennial plantings.

The Schiffs, whose laid-back affability belies the stereotype of the Hollywood class they are a part of, were moved by the home's simplicity: three bedrooms, a sleeping loft and a tiny kitchen, with wide plank floors and rough barn doors hiding pantries and closets, all nestled in bayberry and wisteria, butterfly bushes and rose of Sharon.

Barbara Sawin, Houlihan Lawrence (914) 962-4900; houlihanlawrence.com TAXES: $30,618 a year PROS: The house has a large open-hearth fireplace, lots of windows, many built-ins, wide plank floors, a studio with skylights over a two-car garage, and a separate three-story barn.

CONNECTICUT: 174 Sport Hill Road, Easton A three-bedroom two-bath house with wide plank floors, a circular front staircase, three fireplaces, an office with a separate entrance, a library, a sunroom, a large barn with space for two cars, and a pergola, on about an acre.

Up the elegant staircase is a master bedroom with impossibly wide plank floors; and on the third floor, a warren of sunlit bedrooms, their antique ambiance intact.

This Shelter Island newcomer resembles a white-washed cottage with wide plank floors, beamed ceiling and rustic wall sconces created from bundles of twigs.