Sentence examples for planks from inspiring English sources

"planks" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Example sentence (as a noun): I used planks of wood to build the fence around my garden. Example sentence (as a verb): We planks our front porch to replace the rotting boards.

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planks

noun

Plural of plank

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The papers, in company with their owner, have fervently supported the two main Ukip policy planks for years: opposition to membership of the European Union and a halt to immigration.

With wings like planks and a meat-cleaver for a beak, the white-tailed eagle fixes its eyeballs (twice as large as ours) on the boat.

On a number of fronts, from gay rights to financial regulation and from incarceration to international trade, they would like to reverse if not erase some of the central planks of his presidency.

We made a studio in Rosie's bedroom using some planks for the floor, bricks we found on the street, and bits of pallet for the walls.

A brief walk revealed three examples of illegal activity: a man nonchalantly pretending to whittle a twig with a panga, while five planks of newly-hewn timber rested on the tree beside him, a woman grazing 76 animals and an abandoned, newly hewn, log beehive.

"We use lift-sharing as one of the key planks to cut down on car miles.

All the main policy planks underpinning the Saudi relationship are, more or less, under challenge.

Also introduced this morning – legislation in the House of Representatives to implement the government's Emissions Reduction Fund – one of the key planks of the Coalition's direct action policy.

The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless, faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.

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

And we spent an hour-and-a-half laughing at two guys hitting each other round the head with planks of wood.

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