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Example sentences for "skidways"

Lexicographically close words:
skid; skidded; skidding; skids; skidway; skie; skied; skies; skiey; skiff
  1. No easy skidways to a lake, no flume, no aerials; there was nothing to cut expenses.

  2. Then there would be opportunity for everything, for skidways into the lake, a flume on her side and a mill.

  3. Open, face downward upon the surface of the desk where it had been pushed aside to make room for a rough sketch of the camp with its outreaching skidways and cross-hauls, lay a small volume.

  4. Swampers and axe-men set to work building skidways and cross-hauls, and the banks of the river were cleared for the roll-ways.

  5. An unprecedented thaw set in, ruining the skidways and reducing the snow of the forest to a sodden slush that chilled men to the bone as they floundered heavily about their work.

  6. Day by day the black pyramids of the rollways lengthened, and the skidways were pushed farther and farther into the timber.

  7. Farther and farther into the timber he went, avoiding the outreaching skidways and the sound of axes.

  8. The sodden snow settled heavily, and around the base of stumps and the trunks of standing trees appeared rings of bare ground, while the course of the skidways and cross-hauls stood out sharp and black, like great veins in the clearing.

  9. The sprinkler goes over the road again and again until the road is covered by a clear, solid sheet of ice often two feet thick, extending from the skidways to the banking grounds.

  10. Over these skidways the logs are hauled out by various means.

  11. The task of locating the skidways was soon finished and Saginaw seated himself on a log and produced pipe and tobacco.

  12. Only a few logs remained to be hauled, and Hurley ordered these peeled and snaked to the skidways to await the next season.

  13. Trees were felled, the larger ones to be banked on the skidways and later hauled to the rollways to await the spring break-up, and the smaller ones to be collected and hauled to the new camp for building material.

  14. Only now the logs mounted up and up until the skidways were thirty or forty feet high.

  15. When the breakfast was over the crew were set to making skidways and travoy roads on eight.

  16. There long parallel skidways had been laid the whole width of the river valley.

  17. All of the skidways had to be placed on the edges of the islands themselves, and the logs had to be travoyed over the steep little knolls.

  18. After a long hike they came to the skidways at the main road.

  19. They drove on, and at the skidways Mr. Marlin dropped his subordinate.

  20. I'll take you out to the skidways where the logs are being piled by the highway, and you can work there as long as you like.

  21. The forester explained that the sprayer wasn't often used, but that sometimes it came in very handy.

  22. The cut branches were added to the screen about the tent.

  23. And be sure you don't do anything to draw attention to your camp.

  24. Willie will be at his instrument in three minutes, sure," he said.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skidways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.