How to Use wooden in a Sentence

wooden

adjective
  • The guest speaker was wooden and uninspiring.
  • The blaze sent the wooden buildings to the riverbed below.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Use the end of a wooden spoon to press the mint leaves and lime to the bottom of the glass.
    — Giovanna Vazquez, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The front part of the car crashed through the wooden fence of a nearby home.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • To clean, slide the pail out of the wooden box and place it in the dishwasher.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2022
  • Using the handle of a wooden spoon, make 4 holes in the rice.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Much of the day was spent squatting in place on wooden boards in the cell.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The cop opens fire through a six-foot-high wooden fence.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Use a wooden spoon to scrape up browned bits from the bottom.
    — Odette Williams, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the sweet shot, Luna and Miles stand on top of a wooden chair in a grassy area.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Put a wooden spoon across the pot to stop it from boiling over.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The bride, her groom, and all 60 of her guests sat at a long wooden table.
    — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The two survivors were found Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf coast.
    — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • To the left of the driver is a lever sprouting from the wooden floor that serves two functions.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The kit also comes with a rustic wooden box and rope to store and hang the set.
    — Sarah Toscano, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Linoleum comes in rolls, tiles and planks or strips cut to look like wooden pieces.
    — Kevin Brasler, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • Add the sake, soy sauce, marmalade and garlic to the pan and stir with a wooden spoon.
    — Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Photos showed the all that was left after the fire was the charred wooden frame.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Fans used chairs and wooden planks on the sideline as weapons.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • To make: Start by hot gluing moss to a wooden wreath form.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • All of them date back to the 1920s or earlier and are wooden.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The fires quickly claimed many of the city’s wooden buildings.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The wooden beams and exposed stone apertures in the walls remind you of the heritage that lies in the bones of the house.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There are string lights along the wooden fence leading from 59th Street, past the dunes and onto the beach.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Raised beds bordered with wooden planks took up the once large and open yard.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • And the whole time, the small Ielapi rode the razor’s edge between human and wooden.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The wooden slats are wide and offer lots of shoe storage space.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The wooden high chair his car seat was sitting on broke.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 2 July 2024
  • Now, the work has been covered with plastic and wooden boards.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The segregated school had wooden walls, inside and out, and wood floors.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2025

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