How to Use wood in a Sentence

wood

noun
  • He went for a hike in the woods.
  • She hit a wood off the tee.
  • The wood on the deck has begun to rot.
  • A thick woods runs along the boundary of the estate.
  • Their house is near a small wood.
  • Some baseball bats are made out of wood.
  • The house is surrounded by woods.
  • Well, let’s knock on wood on that.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • The floors were made of pale gray wood.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Do not use this method on wood blinds.
    — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Her body was stripped naked, tied up, and dumped in the woods.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The baby gnawed on the wood posts.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Who leashes their dog out in the woods?
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • Even the pull is a sort of walnut of wood.
    — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 17 May 2026
  • This, right here, is the wood bunk bed of so many kids’ dreams.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Make your wood tables gleam again.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • Pair it with warm woods and linen textures.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The look is all wood and hunting lodge vibes.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
  • All trim levels get open pore wood trim.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • It’s been put through the wood chipper.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Weird stuff happens in the woods.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Boeing is far from out of the woods, though.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And the same goes for the wood or marble cladding.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no sticky floors or rotten wood smell.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2026
  • She was found stabbed to death in the nearby woods.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Its wood is so dense that pests can’t bore into it.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The bento box has a beige lid, which looks like wood.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Yeah, my aunt took apart a roller skate and nailed it on a piece of wood.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Pair wood with chrome, wool with lucite, stone with glass.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And don’t forget to get rid of brush piles and any dead wood.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026

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