Sentence examples for the timber of from inspiring English sources

The timber of horse chestnut is soft and very white.

(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship).

Some crouch on the ruins, struggling to keep warm by burning the timber of their devastated homes.

Unable to move on, he painted over the grim reality around him with an idyllic portrait of South Boston cut from the timber of self-deception.

Scholars think the moai were most likely moved to the coast by means of the timber of trees that were extinct by the time Roggeveen arrived.

In other words, the higher the price loggers can expect to receive for the timber of a certain tree, the more likely they are to target areas of forest where that genus is most abundant, building roads along the way.

All the timbers of the frame were attached together by elaborate dovetail, or mortise-and-tenon, joints.

But I thought to notice you examining the manner in which the timbers of my booth are joined.

We rocked in our cradle, the roots around us straining and creaking like the timbers of a rolling ship.

Geese paddled peaceably on the glinting river, floating under the timbers of the North Bridge, a scene that hasn't changed in 300 years.

Paulson wants a Major League Soccer expansion team for Portland, which became known as Soccer City U.S.A. when the Timbers of the N.A.S.L. played there in the 1970s and '80s.