How to Use sawdust in a Sentence

sawdust

noun
  • A lot of places where there’s sawdust on the floor.
    — Jeff Miller, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Don't worry, there is no sawdust in this pie.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The ones in the stores are grown on sawdust blocks or in compost.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Agents have found migrants in the backs of dump trucks and buried in sawdust.
    — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • These small chips build up and result in a pile of coarse sawdust at the base of a tree.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • Even the sawdust on the floor reminded me of the sand on the beach.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • Garage floors deal with a ton of abuse, from hot tires and dripping oil to sawdust and dirt.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2016
  • Look for large, black ants as well as the tell-tell sawdust-like debris, called frass.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The eatery was known for its Western decor and sawdust on the floor.
    — azcentral, 4 Nov. 2014
  • The perfume of sawdust and the curls that fall from your plane will sweeten the hours.
    — Ellen Bass, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Oil, acrylic medium, aqua resin, epoxy resin, and sawdust on linen over panel.
    — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The name came from her kids, who remarked that the finished pie looked like baked sawdust.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This one goes out to the dads who love to spend their Sundays in the garage smelling sawdust.
    — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
  • They are made of bamboo and a brown coating of compressed sawdust.
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • Next to them are bulky bags of sawdust shipped up from the Lower 48.
    — Zach Hughes, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
  • Aromas of sawdust, sultanas and black cherries with a hit of peach.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Once the piece is distressed to your liking, wipe down excess sawdust with a tack cloth.
    — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Make sure to sweep and vacuum the work area to clean up any sawdust, scraps, or debris.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The floor was covered with sawdust, and the servers were wearing gold-rush era costumes.
    — Yvonne Krumrey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Move the door to the garage, workshop, shed, or any other area where sawdust won't be an issue.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 July 2022
  • Town elders tell of using saws to cut big blocks of ice, put them in the barn and cover them with sawdust.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Pinder said the building was mainly used as a warehouse and was full of wood and sawdust.
    — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2022
  • An aunt barged into the room with a smelly paste that looked like a mixture of sawdust, ground myrrh, and incense oil.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Yeah, so the vessel is filled with a mixture of straw, alfalfa, and sawdust.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • There was the teenage barman Mikey Reilly with his pink cheeks and sawdust crew cut.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • When throwing down the sawdust is required, the Buffs have been left bloodied.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In China, coal and biomass like wood chips and sawdust are burned for cooking and heating.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The 24-hour pee area, whose sawdust is freshened hourly, costs a one-time fee of $20 per dog.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Leave the fish and sawdust layers in place, and fill the bucket to the top with water and cap with a tight-fitting lid.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Each day 10 men shared one pound of cheese and a loaf of German rye bread made mostly of sawdust.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2020

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