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Example sentences for "wood and"

  • Terah made twelve gods of large size, of wood and of stone, corresponding to the twelve months of the year, and he paid homage to them monthly in turn.

  • He fashioned idols of wood and stone, and paid worship to them.

  • The king and all his servants, and Terah with his household, were the first to worship images of wood and stone.

  • Thereupon God sent Metatron to tell Shemhazai that He had resolved to destroy the world and bring on a deluge.

  • The earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the four generations sprung from Cain--Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Methushael.

  • God answered, and said: "O thou foolish shepherd, now thou speakest to Me.

  • This being done, and taking in a supply of wood and water, they held their course along shore to the westwards, taking the Spanish bark along with them.

  • After two days stay at that place, taking in a supply of wood and water, and procuring refreshments, they sailed from thence on the 24th July.

  • They here refreshed themselves with fish and some flesh, and laid in a supply of wood and water; but found goats and fowls hard to be got, and could not procure any oranges.

  • At this place the admiral landed every thing out of his own ship, and then laid her on shore, where she was repaired and graved; after which they laid in a supply of wood and water.

  • In the work of introducing Deuteronomy he had taken an active part, and throughout his life he showed his zeal against unlawful altars and against the adoration of wood and stone (Asheras and pillars).

  • Joshua made the Gibeonites at that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Jehovah even unto this day, in the place which He should choose.

  • The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.

  • You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.

  • The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

  • Cut this out of a piece of wood and make a center hole to fit over the extra length on the blade, glue and put it in place.

  • The trolley wire is fastened to supports made of wood and of the dimensions given in Fig.

  • Alderson could not stop the sale of the five-guinea Tractors, although they proved that they could work the same miracles with pieces of wood and tobacco-pipe.

  • How beautiful is this flower of wood and iron, which we were ready to pass by without wasting a look upon it!

  • I have welcomed Culpeper and Salmon to my bookcase as willingly as Dioscorides or Quincy, or Paris or Wood and Bache.

  • Thus harassed by hunger and the elements, the battered voyagers were too happy to retrace their course and regain the port where they had last taken in supplies of wood and water.

  • After coasting a few leagues, Pizarro anchored off a place not very inviting in its appearance, where he took in a supply of wood and water.

  • But of one thing you must take heed; put on him the common saddle of wood and leather, and not the golden one, which hangs close by, else it will go ill with you.

  • Then they came to a mighty big forest in which there was a mighty big tree; in the tree was a mighty big chapel in the chapel was a sexton made of beech-wood and a box-wood parson, who dealt out holy-water with cudgels.

  • He had not much time to collect his thoughts, for it went in a swift race over stock and stone, mountain and valley, wood and meadow.

  • According to Aulus Genius (Noctes Atticae) it was a ``model of a dove or pigeon formed in wood and so contrived as by a certain mechanical art and power to fly: so nicely was it balanced by weights and put in motion by hidden and enclosed air.

  • The child should be confined to the schoolroom but little and receive most of his training in wood and field.

  • In the Sandwich Islands the nuts are strung upon strips of wood and used as torches.

  • In the sky, through the film of shattered clay, little black dots scurried, poised, and fell again as arms and legs and head less trunks and shapeless bits of wood and iron.

  • Mower charged through as bad a piece of wood and swamp as I ever saw, and got within one hundred yards of Johnston himself, who was at the bridge across Mill Creek.

  • And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

  • Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

  • He defined a beautiful landscape as one in which one could see in its different parts, sea, mountain, lake or spring, dry rocks or plains, wood and valley.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wood and" 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:
    both clauses; central tower; defend ourselves; drawn sword; early stage; foreign workers; little chapel; private interest; rural communities; should expect; three arches; went ahead; wood and wood products; wood fire; wood light; wood ranger; wood spirit; wood thrush; wood tree; wood used; wooden house; wooden image; wooden mallet; wooden spoon; wooden walls; woody fibre