Sentence examples for turned to lumber from inspiring English sources

After dinner, the ladies retired and the talk turned to lumber, but James found himself thinking only of wives.

Weakened by plague and economic deterioration in the late Middle Ages and dominated by neighbouring Denmark and Sweden, Norwegians turned to trading in fish and lumber, and modern Norway, which gained its independence in 1905, emerged as a major maritime transporter of the world's goods as well as a world leader in specialized shipbuilding.

Originally a lumber town, it has turned to tourism and small manufacturing (plastics, wood products, auto parts).

He found work in a lumber mill and later turned to farming.

A former lumbering centre, Saginaw has turned to agriculture and diversified manufacturing (especially auto parts).

Barlow immediately turned to investigate the strange sail, steering southwards directly at the lumbering vessel.

It developed as a lumbering centre and commercial fishing port, but with the decline of both resources it turned to tourism (based on year-round outdoor recreation) and manufacturing (paper and metal products, industrial machinery, and auto parts).

The community thrived during the Michigan lumber boom (1850 90), but, when the local pine forests were depleted and the mills closed, it turned to soft-coal mining, commercial fishing, and beet-sugar refining.

Montanans Against Assisted Suicide hasn't turned to sophisticated political operatives, as death-with-dignity opponents did in Massachusetts, nor has it received millions from Catholic organizations, said Bradley Williams, 64, the former lumber broker who serves as its president.

But the Greeks should be ready to turn to the IMF before they lumber themselves with an even worse fate.

In the distance, you hear a rumble, and if you turn to look, you'll see a giant robot lumbering through the forest, crushing trees underfoot.