Sentence examples for timber of a from inspiring English sources

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

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.

He was a country boy whose first bat – received at the age of four – was made from the timber of a wooden crate and whose schoolteacher father did all he could to ensure that his sons fulfilled the cricketing promise he had also possessed but put to one side in the name of earning a stable living.

Of course, there was the incident of the out-of-sync offerings with Brown giving Obama a pen holder carved from the timber of an anti-slave ship — "a gift wrapped inside a present stuffed inside a thoughtful gesture," as Stewart put it — and getting a DVD box set in return (a snub wrapped inside a put-down stuffed inside bad manners).

The backdrop resembles pleated fabric, or the overlapping timbers of a clinker-built ship.

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

Amid the flimsy shacks of driftwood and plastic stand new houses, a nearly finished children's nursery and the first timbers of a community workshop.

It is made, for example, from new green oak, like the Fortune, not from the 23-year-old timbers of a dismantled building, like the original Globe.

Trump has knocked out the remaining timbers of a left-right coalition that stood for global responsibility, open borders, and cosmopolitan culture.

Only an aesthete with bare-knuckle determination could have cajoled the street gang, The Guvnors, into the theatrical poses in their best Sunday suits amid the charred timbers of a bombed house.

The vessel had been rebuilt from the timbers of a captured Castilian ship the Santa Clara, which was said to have been associated with the Queen of Spain – almost certainly Catharine of Lancaster, the English-born widow of the Castilian king, Enrique III.