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• As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.From the entry wind
• The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.From the entry amateur
• Water damage caused the plywood of the floor to delaminate. The layers came apart and the whole piece had to be replaced.From the entry delaminate
• A Caja China, on the other hand, is made of plywood.2014, Ben Ford, Carolynn Carreño, Taming the Feast: Ben Ford's Field Guide to Adventurous Cooking, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry caja china
• At the gas station on the corner, a jackleg work crew was attaching plywood to the windows.2010, Jabari Asim, “Day Work”, in A Taste of Honey, New York: Broadway Books, page 189. From the entry jackleg
• It cost me several hundred dollars more than if I had just cookie cuttered the plywood.1999 August 27, Dale Wiese, “Woodlands New Layout Method”, in rec.models.railroad (Usenet). From the entry cookie-cutter
• Quality specifications for plywood subfloor material are such that only the outside plys are knot-free.1963, Materials Research and Standards, volume 3, page 67. From the entry plys
• His trailer smelt horrible, it had the stench of soggy cheap plywood that had been soaked in a soupful of turds.2018, Ed Wagemann, edited by Anne Moss, Gentrification: The Early Works of Ed Wagemann, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry soupful
• He opens the plywood door that conceals the radiogram.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, Auckland: RHNZ Vintage, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry radiogram
• The wall behind the cubbies is made of wheatboard, an environmentally friendly equivalent of plywood containing processed wheat.2007 May 20, Amanda Hesser, “Flour Power”, in New York Times. From the entry wheatboard
• New and medium scale industries over a wide front were set up to produce plywood, cables, steelpipes, electrical appliances and textiles.2007, Saw, Swee-Hock, The population of Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, page 5. From the entry steelpipe
• My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine. From the entry bottom
• Three plywood portable trifolds covered with burlap were assembled with hinges to divide the room at the pleasure of the displayers.1974, Spectrum - Volumes 50-51, page 26. From the entry trifold
• Some deckbuilders cut strips of ½-inch-thick exterior plywood to the same dimension as the beam members and sandwich the plywood between the boards.2016, Black+Decker, The Complete Outdoor Builder: From Arbors to Walkways, 150 DIY Projects, Minneapolis, Minn.: Cool Springs Press…. From the entry deckbuilder
• Incredibly strong, and capable of supporting the weight of several people, the cardboard laminates operate as semi-monocoques with an intermediary plywood armature.2015, Beverly Russell, Eva Maddox, Farooq Ameen, Fifty Under Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry semi-monocoque
• With another huge effort he grabbed the bucket hook again, mentally crossing his fingers for the bolts in the thin plywood to hold.2012, Anne Holt, Tom Geddes, Blind Goddess, →ISBN. From the entry cross one's fingers
• To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192. From the entry horsefeathers
• There was a plywood stage and a microphone in front of the ropeline, and behind, some kids—looked like one busload—with hand-painted signs: LET GEORGE DO IT and IOWA BUSH.2011, Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House. From the entry ropeline
• The aeroponics system uses a spinner from a home humidifier to propel nutrient solution into a polyethylene-lined plywood box atop which plants are supported on plastic light-fixture “egg crating.”1976, Richard W. Zobel, Peter Del Tredici, John G. Torrey, Method for Growing Plants Aeroponically, Plant Physiology, page Abstract. From the entry aeroponics
• A loading room must be considered unsafe until tested, regardless of whether it is a permanent, temperature-controlled, air-filtered installation or a portable plywood "hotbox” on a sound stage.1970, Verne Carlson, Sylvia Carlson, Professional 16/35mm Cameraman's Handbook, page 34. From the entry hotbox

Meaning of plywood

1. noun Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
2. noun A specific grade or type of this construction material.
3. verb To fit or block up with plywood.

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How do you use plywood in a sentence?

Plywood is used as a noun and verb. For example: “After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.”

What is a short sentence with plywood?

“He opens the plywood door that conceals the radiogram.”

What does plywood mean?

Plywood means construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.