How to Use wooden in a Sentence

wooden

adjective
  • The guest speaker was wooden and uninspiring.
  • His car sideswiped a wooden bridge.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The spoon was so large and so wooden as well.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Gray stone, wooden beams, iron tools.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • There were gaps in the wooden base near the roll-up door.
    — Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • My eye goes first to a thin disc propped up on a wooden stand.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Right by the door there was an old chair next to a dark wooden shoe rack.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The beds, four to a room, were made from steel slats on a wooden frame.
    — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Linoleum comes in rolls, tiles and planks or strips cut to look like wooden pieces.
    — Kevin Brasler, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • Game Board – large wooden board or plank, or stone slab.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This pastel corn is made from wooden beads and corn husks.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Put a wooden spoon across the pot to stop it from boiling over.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The wooden frame gives it a rustic look.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Fans used chairs and wooden planks on the sideline as weapons.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Awkward wooden forks and spoons have been around for years.
    — Zoya Hasan, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Plus, the wooden top is perfect for my plants.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 11 May 2026
  • Then there’s a rickety rope and wooden slat bridge.
    — Judy Stecker, STAT, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Was someone else in the wooden box?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Two people close enough to the wooden lifeboat were pulled in.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • There was nothing there but trees, grass and these wooden huts.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And stamps fixed to large wooden handles.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There are a few wooden bridges that hikers cross over along the way.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The pole hit my right eye with the force of a heavy wooden baseball bat.
    — Will Rice, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Much of the day was spent squatting in place on wooden boards in the cell.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The front part of the car crashed through the wooden fence of a nearby home.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • There were all these mirrors with these frames that are kind of weird, wooden ones.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Or failed to noticed there’s one less knife in the wooden block in the kitchen.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Use a wooden spoon to lightly smash about half the beans against the side of the pan.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Bags of mulch and wooden boards sit near a second play area filled with rocks and sand.
    — Richard J. Marcus, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • From there, the beach is just a few steps down a wooden walkway that leads over the dunes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026

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