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How to use sawdust in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Sawdust means the fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material. Example: “Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.”

More sentences with sawdust

  • Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.From the entry mealy
  • Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.From the entry whisk
  • The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.From the entry sawmill
  • He brought us his fruitwood sawdust in an old feedsack, ready to be used in our crafting project.From the entry feedsack
  • Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.From the entry layup
  • He was picking eggs and replacing the floor of the main hennery with sawdust.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 84. From the entry hennery
  • I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”.2008, Phillip Taylor, Going Full Circle: My Fight Against Guillain Barre Syndrome, page 56. From the entry plait sawdust
  • Grandma makes bran muffins that taste like sawdust.2012, Fran Kimmel, “Joey”, in The Shore Girl, NeWest Press, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry grandsonly
  • If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust.2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46. From the entry plait sawdust
  • “Coffee” might be largely sawdust, or wheat, beans, beets, peas, and dandelion seeds, scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article.2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic. From the entry genuine article
  • I tumbled onto the sawdust in a tangle of arms and legs with my left fist gripped around my beerpot struggling to keep it vertical.2014, Alan Burt Akers, Challenge of Antares, page 99. From the entry beerpot
  • "I've got one of those outside dunnies here, hasn't been emptied for six months and I ran out of sawdust three months ago."1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 106. From the entry dunny
  • That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit. From the entry stir
  • Neglect to remove the "balling" of horse dung or soiled bedding, tan, or sawdust from the shod foot is a fruitful source.1907 October 8, S.S. Cameron, “Diseases of Farm Animals”, in The Journal of Agriculture, volume 5, page 636. From the entry balling
  • When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.1973, Pulp & Paper International, volume 15. From the entry slug
  • A technique employing either the strobotorch or high-speed photography has been evolved for observing the behaviour of the sawdust in the tooth gullets of a circular saw.1950 October, E.J. Salisbury, Forest Products Research 1949, page 3. From the entry strobotorch
  • Then we swept up the litter from the floor, threw down fresh sawdust, and swallowed gallipots of wine or coffee or water—anything, so long as it was wet.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry gallipot
  • The remaining timber can be cut with a thinbladed small reciprocating gangsaw into smooth skid lumber of uniform thickness with a minimum amount of waste in the form of sawdust.1959, Bulletin of the Wood Research Laboratory, numbers 36–60, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, page 30. From the entry thinbladed
  • William A. (Billy) Sunday, one of the most noted evangelists of the old "sawdust trail," died suddenly tonight of a heart attack in the home of his brother-in-law, William J.1935 November 7, “Billy Sunday Dies; Evangelist Was 71; Former Ball Player Induced Thousands To 'hit Sawdust Trail' To Conversion”, in New…. From the entry sawdust trail

Meaning of sawdust

  1. noun The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
  2. noun Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.
  3. verb To sprinkle with sawdust.

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Questions about sawdust in a sentence

How do you use sawdust in a sentence?
Sawdust is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.”
What is a short sentence with sawdust?
“Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.”
What does sawdust mean?
Sawdust means the fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

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