Today, in spite of technological advancement and competition from metals, plastics, cement, and other materials, wood maintains a place in most of its traditional roles, and its serviceability is expanding through new uses.
The as-prepared superhydrophobic coatings on wood maintain stable superhydrophobicity after suffering a significant abrasion.
Woods maintained a straight face for another beat or two, then added, "On the range".
There were three regulars who had fetched chairs from a cache in the nearby woods maintained by the Hook Mountain Hawk Watch, a semiformal collection of volunteers that keeps track of migrating raptors.
Against long odds, the right-hander Dillon Gee — knock on wood — has maintained his place within the Mets' rotation and avoided the disabled list, week after perilous week.
The continuing demand of wood was maintained by the acquisition of more distant sources.
Even while living in the woods, she maintained a remarkably keen sense of Russian politics.
Busk-Wood had maintained this formation after the first Condor was spotted in the belief that the aircraft would call in submarines rather than conduct an attack.
The best wood for maintaining a fire is dead wood that you pull off a standing tree.
Barricaded behind a desk, in an office that is all bark-colored leather and wood, he maintains an intimidating, rocklike calm.
