firewood

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Recent Examples of firewood Two of the campgrounds are open year-round, and the facilities have restrooms (with modern rain shower heads), firewood, a dump station, dog waste stations, and a comfort station. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025 Setup is quick and completely hassle-free; there’s no need for messy ashes, firewood, or complicated assembly. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025 Reduce rodent habitat around your home, workplace, and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025 Maxwell, a journalist, comes from generations of rugged Maine stock who split their own firewood. Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firewood
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firewood
Noun
  • In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
  • Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.
    Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The wood was sent down the 54-mile Sanger flume to get to a railroad.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Episode 5 opens with a postal worker’s 2020 account of seeing Sellers naked in the woods, with his face covered, carrying a child’s jacket.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 144-foot-long (44-meter) vessel also carried cargo including iron ore, lumber and more.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • His wages were previously garnished in 2010 in the aftermath of an allegedly unfulfilled deal with a lumber company, according to court records.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Designed by architect Ed Niles, the triangular 7,100-square-foot house features a flat roof, glass walls, and soaring ceilings lined with dramatic beams.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The plan is to integrate lasers, microwave beams, and hypersonic missiles into the system to counter large-scale drone attacks.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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