How to Use sawmill in a Sentence

sawmill

noun
  • But, if this land was once submerged, what about the sawmill?
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Heinz led with a firm but fair hand in the woods, at the sawmill and at home.
    — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In that year, a land grant was issued to put up a sawmill on the site.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 June 2021
  • Over the years, the sets have ranged from a Mayan temple to a sawmill.
    — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The sawmill nearly took the arm of a high school football player.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The student body shrank decades ago after a local sawmill closed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Wood chips, byproduct of area sawmills, bound for China pulp mills.
    — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • Lumberjacks felled trees and floated logs to the sawmill to make boards faster.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The town was laid out around an old sawmill at the end of the 19th century.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The moments that stand out most are the first fire — Dave’s dream — and the last — the sawmill fire.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • The town is dotted with sawmills that are the backbone of its economy.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Plans call for new construction, new machinery and more shifts at the sawmill.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Rain and snow had left damp patches on the exterior cladding, which still had the scent of the sawmill.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Harding built the town's first sawmill on the south bank of the lake, along with a three-room house for his family.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
  • When land is logged, the thick, straight trunks typically go to a sawmill that churns out things like two-by-fours.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The second was a small sawmill built by George and Jake Mattox.
    — arkansasonline.com, 12 July 2025
  • The main attraction of the park is the full sized replica of Sutter’s sawmill.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The last major sawmills closed three decades ago, and the region never really bounced back.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
    — Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Thus, a team of humans did the work of a sawmill, transforming a raw trunk into a rough-hewn wooden beam.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In the second, a 16-year-old boy was killed when he got pinned in a wood-stacking machine at a sawmill.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Burdge said his research led him to believe the stone was once the base of an old sawmill and the stream was used to transport logs.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The site overlooks a pond and includes a sawmill, wheelwright and blacksmith shop, along with a two-story house.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Bad Bunny plays in the background as Joe dismembers a dead body at a sawmill.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
  • It is logged deep in the jungles, processed in sawmills and finally exported.
    — Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Hardy and Brown concluded, was to hire loggers to clear out small trees -- and that meant there had to be a sawmill to take the logs.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
  • But where much of logging revenue goes to head offices and sawmills elsewhere, tree tourism is helping create jobs in town.
    — Brad Badelt, Outside, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Site work at the new Pike County sawmill is scheduled to start on March 15.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Green Spaces People had no idea back then what role the little sapling might play beyond the sawmill.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The owner of a sawmill fashioned benches made from a pine tree that fell in the schoolyard during the hurricane.
    — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022

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