How to Use woodshed in a Sentence

woodshed

noun
  • Snow fell quietly on the streets and piled up on top of the woodsheds.
    — Jia Tolentino, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • You were beotch-slapped by a better game day coach that took you and your team to the woodshed.
    — Matt Jennings, ajc, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The woodshed should have been full by the first week of September.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Well, his team was good enough to take Lewis' Bengals to the woodshed.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Many things that are very basic that any public school would be taken to the woodshed for not doing, haven’t been done.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Their woodshed had been shielded with metal screen panels to keep out embers, and their doormats were made of metal grating.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • In her series, Bee is outdoors on what is presumably her property, near a woodshed.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Jack was an avid hobbyist—always working in his woodshed or on his computer or on perfecting his omelets.
    — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Long story short, this woodshed provides a place to escape to year-round, and now is the time to invest while it’s marked down at Wayfair.
    — Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2025
  • From the woodshed to the mountainside and all points between, the ermine may have one title independent of its weight class.
    — Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Last week shares of Kohl’s, Nordstrom and Foot Locker got taken out to the woodshed.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 29 May 2019
  • Founder Isaac Morton came up with the idea for the company after restoring vintage cast iron pieces in his woodshed.
    — Amanda Ogle, Treehugger, 30 May 2023
  • Inflation, which struggled to get out of the gate during an 11-year expansion, seems confined to the woodshed.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 16 May 2020
  • As investment continues, the outcome will be more life-changing contracts in a league where players used to play games on high school fields and change in woodsheds.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • Conversations during day jobs at department stores led to woodsheds and studio recordings.
    — Celina Pereira, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • To cope with the loneliness and isolation his deafness caused, Hauck would work in his woodshed or ride his bike on the Tammany Trace.
    — Kadee Krieger | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The next day, a man by the name of Benjamin Cleveland (Turlough Convery) finds Jamie in the woodshed.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The day after they were born, Costa’s father quickly entered the woodshed and stole the puppies while the mother dog, Gira, was out.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • During a blustery autumn storm, the tailwinds of a hurricane, the wind whipped through the woodshed and stirred up some of the papers, littering them around the property.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Where are the sure wins for Florida and Napier on this rugged schedule after getting taken to the woodshed by Miami?
    — Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Unsatisfied with an 8-8 season without a postseason berth, the Vikings head coach went to the woodshed and started tinkering.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 7 June 2019
  • Every Saturday morning, about 15–20 volunteers gather at a woodshed in the tiny town of Searsmont, Maine.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • All credit to Jesse Marsch's side for taking Minnesota United to the woodshed with some absolutely beautiful play.
    — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • One of the most affecting scenes in the book reveals its author, age 12 or 13, hiding out in a woodshed to watch the Williams sisters at practice on a rare visit to Bollettieri’s.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Nearly everything associated with the ideals and institutions of liberal democracy, including traditional religion, was taken to the woodshed.
    — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 27 June 2019

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