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Example sentences for "thin wood"

  • The cottage is made of thin wood about 1/8 inch to 3/8 inch in thickness, according to measurements given in Fig.

  • If these toys are cut out of thin wood, 1/8 inch thick, they still require at least twice as much lead as the cardboard toy.

  • The platforms project about 1/4 inch beyond the prisms; the supports may be cardboard or pieces of thin wood.

  • A bare garden border is not so suitable for it as that in which it may be found in a thin wood, or in little openings in a copse, where it enjoys enough light, and gets shelter too.

  • Even comparatively small ones, like the ivy–leaved Cyclamen, a beautiful plant that we rarely find in perfection in gardens, I have seen perfectly naturalised and spread all over the mossy surface of a thin wood.

  • A template is a form cut out of thin wood or metal; in this case 1/8-inch wood should be used.

  • With this tool, saw on the lines exactly as in thin wood, and file the edges smooth.

  • Ralph insisted on the design being carefully drawn on a piece of thin wood, a quarter of an inch thick.

  • Now cut a templet or set square out of card or thin wood, corresponding with angle C B D, thus (Fig.

  • This is made out of a piece of thin wood (cigar-box wood does nicely) eight inches long and one inch wide.

  • When all your materials are ready, select a piece of thin wood (marked 1 in the list of materials).

  • Make a temporary box around these, inclosing a space equal to the length and breadth of the keel, with strips of thin wood, such as cigar-box wood; strips of heavy pasteboard may answer the purpose sufficiently well.

  • The board can be made out of thin wood, or upon a strong piece of pasteboard, the white squares left the original color of the material used, and the black colored with ink or paint, whichever is most conveniently at hand.

  • The pointed wedge-shape of the tack tends to split thin wood, and is not at all suitable to fasten two pieces of wood together, particularly in thin wood or near the edge.

  • It can be made of tin or any sheet metal, or even of thin wood.

  • Three circular wheels, made of thin wood, but without spokes, are fixed round this post.

  • The illuminated rays are made of thin wood, with tin sockets, fixed on their sides, within four inches of each other.

  • Round the edge of the body, nail a hoop made of thin wood or tin, which must project in front six or seven inches.

  • At e I placed vertical slats of thin wood, and horizontal slats of the same size at f.

  • I interposed between the screws, slats of thin wood arranged in the manner shown at d, d; this was to prevent rotation of the air.

  • We were about in the middle of a very small grove, and knew it was a poor place to stay in, for it was a thin wood, and the daylight was not far distant.

  • In the morning, when the east began to redden, we got shelter in a thin wood, and, having found some potatoes outside of one of the villages, we determined to run the risk of having a fire to roast them.

  • When morning came we took cover in a thin wood.

  • Reflector for Viewing Scenery from a Car Window Construct a box of pasteboard or thin wood, about 9 in.

  • The Indicator The case of the indicator is built of thin wood--the material of an old cigar box will do--9 in.

  • Should a handle be desired, one can be easily made by gluing two pieces of thin wood on the sides.

  • Use piece of 2 × 2 of desired length and make couch cover of appropriate material, or add back and arms of thin wood to piece of 2 × 2 and finish to match other furniture.

  • They should estimate the length of the back of the chair, then measure and saw off the thin wood needed.

  • An armchair may be made by the addition of shorter pieces of thin wood to the sides of the chair.

  • With the cutting laid upon the waste paper, the paste may be spread with brush, thin wood, or thick paper, well out over the edges.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thin wood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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