Etymology
Origin of pinewood
Example Sentences
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Malibu’s Cub Scout Pack 224 lost its pinewood derby track — the testing grounds for a highly anticipated annual Scouting tradition.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Areas of pinewood still survive around Torridon in the west and eastwards towards Aberdeen.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2023
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was pinewood.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023
Leavenworth’s latest addition fits so seamlessly here — pretty, pale pinewood; steins and antlers and snowshoes everywhere — you’d never guess its Bavarian artifice is a meta-import, just opened in August.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2018
Jan nailed a pinewood board over the gap in the door and went off again with Miep to inform the police of the break-in.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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