Sentence examples for wide board from inspiring English sources

Inside the house, structural components of the original barn, like its heavy wooden beams and wide board floors, have been preserved as design elements.

This is a reasonable assumption, for the crank, fashioned from a wide board, had insufficient strength (because of its cross grain) to drive a large bit.

Pioneered by Honolulu's Waikiki beach boys to monitor tourists during surfing lessons, riders stand upright on a long, wide board and use a six-foot paddle to propel themselves.

An early-1800's cape, with wide board floors, four bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace and an in-law apartment on nearly five acres, is listed at $309,900.

Walk into Marianna Kennedy's low-lit, generously proportioned house and you are at once seduced by the smell of wood smoke from the many fireplaces and by the distinctive patina of wax that gives the wide board flooring its mellow glow.

"How could I help it when you have a great wide board to swing?" Ruth had splintered the edges of his cricket bat, such was the force he swung with, but Alan Fairfax, the former Australian cricketer who had been watching, told the assembled press: "In a fortnight, I could make one of the world's greatest batsmen out of him".

A solid wood floor composed of too many wide boards may become unstable through expansion and contraction.

"If you want wide boards, which are more expensive, it is worth saving your money, otherwise you may forever wonder 'what if'.

Crafted out of hand-hewn beams and wide boards, with legs of chestnut timbers and aprons of 200-year-old pine, the tables are, in Mr. Bradley's words, "a testament to the early settlers who cleared the land and built the barns and farmhouses".

"Some of the newer wide boards are so stable, you can put someone in a business suit on a board without fear of them getting wet".

You know, when big wide boards first came out.