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
Few cyclists use the velodrome’s Siberian pinewood floor to train and Brazil didn’t field a single competitor for Tokyo, despite promises the facility would be an incubator.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
The Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, which collectively sponsor a large percentage of Scout units, have not left in overwhelming numbers, as some feared, and campouts, service projects and pinewood derbies have continued.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
A tuck-box is a small pinewood trunk which is very strongly made, and no boy has ever gone as a boarder to an English Prep School without one.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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