Example Sentences

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Choose items such as hardwoods as opposed to softer woods or inexpensive materials that may not last.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Researchers studying hardwoods in northwest Ohio say a century of warming has extended their annual growing season by a month on average.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

Some varieties prefer to grow in manure, others like living trees and still others flourish on decaying hardwoods like oak logs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

The researchers also identified more exotic ingredients, including dammar and elemi, resins extracted from hardwoods native to Southeast Asian rainforests thousands of kilometers from ancient Egypt.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 1, 2023

The trek was rough because we stayed in the forests, where the understory is a jungle of hazelnut, viburnum, and twisted young hardwoods fighting for the sun.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George