planks

Example Sentences

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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

That’s why I focus on the basics—hip mobility, planks, squats or dead lifts, rows, shoulder work and rotational drills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

For the Tanglewood strategist, though, most of the planks in the investment rationale remain intact.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Excavators were at work along the shoreline - houses built on wooden stilts over the lagoon were still being pulled down, their planks collapsing into the water below.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

We pulled down on the top end of the planks.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman