plank floor
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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First, I did up my breakfast things, then scrubbed the plank floor.
From Literature
I found myself in a cavernous, dusty room with a plank floor and high, exposed rafters.
From Literature
Then, finally, she remembered the Bunty Club—not all the funny detail but the actuality of it, the clandestine meetings in the shed, crouching on the plank floor among all those dangerous tools they weren’t supposed to go near, the splintery walls fragrant with creosote, her arms wrapped tight around scabbed knees, feeling scalded and enthralled by what was forbidden.
From The New Yorker
The pine plank floor threatened to buckle.
From Los Angeles Times
Her back was sore too, from where her cushions had slid apart in the night and she’d fallen through to the rough plank floor of the cabin.
From Literature
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