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

Though he flopped at woodchopping and milking, he was a whiz when it came to moneymaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

All winter we alternated this work with woodchopping, afterwards chopping the riven lengths into firewood lengths and then splitting these into firewood.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas