Sentence examples for gem of timber from inspiring English sources

Canlis floats high above Lake Union in Seattle, a Northwest Modernist gem of timber and glass and stone, Seattle's fanciest, finest restaurant for more than 60 years.

The government is widely assumed to have built Naypyidaw with revenue from the sale of timber, gems and natural gas.

In fact, Chinese firms have gone further and built arms factories in Sudan, which have proved particularly handy since the UN imposed an arms embargo in 2004.Myanmar is a source of timber, gems and food for China.

Gem mining, timber logging, the collection of plants for ornamental and medicinal purposes, encroachment, poaching and vehicle traffic are the other threats.

The first trusses were built of timber.

At stake in Nuristan are illegal gem and timber smuggling routes, though the province is so remote that the United States hardly has any military presence there.

Will the price of timber increase?

They waved sticks and pieces of timber.

Europe is Malaysia's second-largest timber export market after Japan, with 2.67 billion ringgit ($834 million) in sales of timber and timber products in 2009.

Lorries no longer carry the planks of timber: villagers do.

Piles may be of timber, reinforced concrete, or steel.