Example Sentences

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“If it wasn’t for woodchopping, I probably would have never left West Virginia,” Matt told me.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2016

His family has been associated with competitive woodchopping for nearly a century.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2016

In the nineteen-thirties, two of their patriarchs entered Appalachia’s earliest organized woodchopping competitions.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2016

Accordingly, in exchange for laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby white family.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the General came up next morning, the camp was reeking with smoke from braziers and the smell of cookers and the wood alive with sounds of woodchopping and cries of foragers.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Rose, Geoffrey Keith