Example Sentences
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Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The slate gray of stormy seas, deep-ocean navy and the rich brown of old ship planks are popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
In the beginning, Peck says it was easy to find trees and hire a mobile sawmill to cut them into planks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
For the Tanglewood strategist, though, most of the planks in the investment rationale remain intact.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
But then a pre-raising inspection of the sunken vessel revealed that most of the nails in the planks inside the ship had corroded during the more than four hundred years it had been submerged.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
