wooden
Example Sentences
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Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
In an age when authenticity and emotion dominate politics, he could come across as stiff and wooden.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
First of all, I agree that you don’t necessarily need to write, “Please don’t put hot beverages and bowls on my French-polished wooden table from the 1960s.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
Visitors were greeted by security forces in flak jackets, some in military camouflage and others toting submachine guns, scattered amid a landscape of green pastures, wooden chalets and snowy peaks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
The chairs were surprisingly comfortable, a far cry from the hard wooden ones back at the Academy.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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