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Sentence Examples We also came back with a car-load of various size chipboard planks, a few wood crates, metal shelving and assorted wood offcuts. Cut the legs, cleats, planks and spokes to length with the table saw and jig, labeling each one as you finish. The surrounding countryside is covered in axed logs, millions of them lying about awaiting process into planks. Although the core materials are saturated in resins, the planks can still swell from excessive amounts of moisture. Nailing ceilings, one nails a wood tongued-and-grooved board in place while standing on planks laid across sawhorses. During construction, these planks were suspended on scaffolding while concrete floors and columns were poured around them. It began to tear slowly but not quickly enough as we collapsed onto the wood and rolled across the splintered planks. The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area. We found the remains of five troughs made of wooden planks, connected by mortice and tenon joints. On the deck below Maria heard the poor dog scratching at the wooden planks anxiously. In the north, houses are rectangular and made from wooden planks or palm thatch. Then again, maybe I'm just as thick as two short planks, which a lot of people think. It's like meeting a really handsome bloke and finding out he's thick as two short planks when he opens his mouth. Maybe he's as thick as two planks and thinks she is a member of the Labor party. This is very surprising because the man has a reputation as being thick as two planks. A person can be very good at reeling off facts and figures but can still be as thick as two short planks. Under the blazing August sun, workers pushed heavy barrowloads of salt along wooden planks to the top of an ever-higher heap of salt. Both are available in planks, strips, or patterns such as herringbone or basket weave. The two central planks to the strategy focus firstly on retaining existing customers in its core activities of mortgage lending and savings. She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door. Show More Sentences Under the good planks on the top of the pile in the timber yard were all the shoddy ones. Skiing, the noble art of belting down a mountain on two planks while three sheets to the wind, will never be the same again. The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges. I may be two planks short of a sailboat a lot of the time but I generally know how to recognise a leading question just before I walk into it. It shows guys holding mortar boards with bricks on their heads running down planks. Floors throughout are restored eight inch wide pine planks with natural wood skirting boards. If the men slackened off, the planks they stood on came up and lacerated the shins of their legs causing painful injury. In a loud, booming noise, the central structure was reduced to a pile of flaming planks. These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground. Ibis knocked at another door, this one tall and fashioned of long, thin planks bolted with iron spikes. Far off to his left, he could hear Em and the Marns boy hammering planks to the tree. Part art project, part trophy ski, Zai planks are handcrafted in Switzerland. Opposite the workstation, a dining table of thick maple planks cantilevers from the wall just beneath the gas fireplace. When selecting your decking planks, always check that the timbers are either hardwood or pressure treated softwood. The cord is sewn through the ribs and the strakes, with special cleats left on the planks for the job. They began to arm themselves, carrying swords, studded planks of wood, and making petrol bombs. The planks have to be drilled and riveted together side by side with a diagonal chamfer at their ends. Clip-clop, clip-clop went his hooves as he clattered over the wooden planks. Buckets, barrels and tubs were made from planks of wood bound with metal or withy hoops. The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking. Show More Sentences The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility. Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length. Each of these planks has an enormous negative environmental impact and, at best, mixed economic impacts. There are also several planks of wood, a traffic cone, a section of mesh metal fence and a shopping trolley. Shafts could be ripped by handsaw from one-inch planks cut with a pit saw, or they were sometimes split from a billet with a froe, or wedge. She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets. It has tall, multi-coloured apartment towers that bend and droop, and people drop extended planks between buildings to visit each other. With premium material the planks are straighter and flatter and that means easier installation and less waste. To assure that the most visible wall has a full-width board, and that the planks are installed straight, use a layout line. To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row. As you lay the planks, use a hammer or mallet and a scrap piece of flooring to force the planks tightly together and assure a snug fit. Bridges made of boats collected together and moored side by side, with a decking of timber planks, were used from the classical period. I'm working with a playwright and we've just got to the stage where we're pretty sure we've nailed the main planks of the piece in place. The SEP's policy to end the war is grounded on the fundamental planks of socialist internationalism. It assumes that once in power it would be possible to win referendums on the main planks of its programme. Later he made reconciliation with Germany one of the central planks of his foreign policy. Be sure there is no excess glue on the planks before placing the plywood on top. The floor was the wooden planks and the walls and domed ceiling were of woven branches. We expect that removal of the garboards and other planks will force replacement of at least some backbone components. The dark mahogany color of the garboards make for quite a contrast with the birch planks above. Show More Sentences Instead of lightly brown crisps of bread, it popped out slice after slice of burned black planks of pumpernickel. Although he only has an economy class ticket he planks himself down in First Class and, despite the efforts of the steward, refuses to move. Her men dropped planks and launched grapples onto the other ship, securing the two ships together. The planks and grappling irons were removed and The Relentless sailed away. An eightyfold increase in coal production led to the need for more lumber for mine props, timbers, and planks. Cut into one of the cross planks was a large hole over which you sat and performed the daily evacuation of one's bowels. Then cover the surrounding planks with a drop cloth, craft paper, or similar material to protect the existing floor. A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted. The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked. She stopped, noticing that the wooden planks were giving in to her weight, creaking dangerously. Use plywood walk boards or wooden planks over the ceiling joists for support. Floating on the water was a large raft, made of smoothed logs, fastened together and topped with roughly hewn planks. Obstacles include jumping through a hanging tire, scaling planks, running up and down an A-frame, and other challenges. You are much less likely to be arrested for destroying London trees if you buy planks of wood from a local timber merchant. For flooring, narrow strips of bamboo are laminated together to form planks, which can be glued or nailed to a subfloor. More than 300 planks have been fitted and now the ribs or timbers will be restored or replaced. Bending could have been prevented by constructing the lower deck of the Ark out of logs, four layers deep, instead of planks. The sound of his heels on the wooden planks was a sturdy percussion, mixed in perfect time to the heavy rubbing of his sheath, and the jangle of the undone belts of his coat. These decks were to be laid with the old yellow cedar planks on which marks of the planer still showed clearly, along with some definite indications of their previous use. Both noted that the line of fences 6, 7 and 8, which was a vertical of red planks to the twenty-foot water jump to a Liverpool oxer of white poles, was most tricky. Show More Sentences A few centuries later Caesar was describing the sturdy ocean-going ships of the Veneti of Armorica, massively constructed with thick nailed planks. This also serves to promote the via media concept, for it is well known that Erasmus rejected the key Reformed doctrinal planks of sola gratia and sola fide. The white paint on the porch was peeling, long years of standing was wearing away at the timber wood planks on the floor, creaking with every step. One young woman was stretchered from the beach on a makeshift platform of planks and a rubber mat after tumbling from the rocks as she tried to escape a tear gas pellet. Most of the planks had gaping holes in them or were completely gone, but the two main beams running from bank to bank looked sturdy enough to walk on. I prefer to use planks that have a ribbed, non-slip profile. Under the roof ridge there are cross planks that hold various secrets. In its rigging, sails, banners, planks, and deeply curved outline, the ship most resembles a seagoing Chinese junk, with the addition of paddle wheel and funnel. Edge-grain boards are made by placing planks of wood on edge and gluing them together under pressure. A couple of hours of tippy-toeing around and we'd only covered a distance of maybe twice this room, and all we'd come across was a half dozen planks of wood. He swapped fish caught in the Potomac for shingles, planks, nails, and rum for the field hands at harvest time. Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together. And once there, I leaned my back against a hollow in a boulder, not the smooth planks of a bench thoughtfully placed in the shade of twin live oaks. As a result, like spruce, fir wood too is used for making shingles, ceiling planks, cheap wall paneling, packing cases, tea chests, match sticks and boxes. Decks would be counted as pervious, or absorbent, if they include slats between planks and are built over a pervious surface such as dirt or uncompacted gravel. The cable anchor blocks and steelwork, which were still in good condition, were retained and some of the original Australian hardwood decking timber and running planks. The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation. He may well be as thick as two short planks and show a reckless disregard for the facts, but he's also a grubby opportunist who thrives on the misery of others. A steam box is excellent for making planks easier to bend although hot wet rags are a messy, but easy substitute. The earliest boats discovered date from the Bronze Age and are constructed of hollowed out logs or sewn planks. Show More Sentences Late Bronze Age ships, such as the Uluburun Shipwreck have been discovered in the Mediterranean, constructed of edge joined planks. It consists of a series of timber planks placed side by side and compressed transversely with high-strength steel prestressing bars. What a shame that the two ditziest girls in Walford should ever have moved into the same house as those two planks the Moon brothers. You won't be able to give it pronounced crosshatched grill lines, and its shape gives you thin, squiggly slices rather than wide planks. A laminated arch is a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails. When are TV bosses going to realise that women like Kelly who look spectacular but are as thick as two short planks don't make good presenters? The planks, which can weigh as much as 14,000 pounds each, become the subfloors. How dare she blame parents for criminals and drug dealers and say we are as thick as two short planks. The space between the posts was filled in with wattle and daub, or occasionally, planks. Early Egyptians also knew how to assemble planks of wood with treenails to fasten them together, using pitch for caulking the seams. Early Egyptians also knew how to fasten the planks of this ship together with mortise and tenon joints. Upward from the keel, the hull was made by overlapping nine planks on either side with rivets fastening the oaken planks together. This suggests that knees were used to brace the upper two or three topside planks but have rotted away. Between each futtock the planks were lapped in normal clinker style and fastened with six iron rivets per plank. The planks were radially hewn so that the grain is approximately at right angles to the surface of the plank. In more sophisticated builds, forward planks were cut from natural curved trees called reaction wood. In less sophisticated ships short and nearly straight planks were used at the bow and stern. The boat was constructed of oak planks, stitched together with yew withies and also fixed together with wooden wedges. This makes it similar to the Ferriby boats, which are also stitched planks. As such, they lacked the fuchuan's raised platforms or extended planks used for battle. Show More Sentences Once Martin Lopez and Chichimecatecle brought the logs and planks to Texcoco, the sloops were built quickly. Iron rivets and brackets, as long as shrub branches or tree roots, were used to fasten the planks to each other. Elsewhere, lumber usually refers to felled trees, and the word for sawn planks ready for use is timber. A solid wood floor is a floor laid with planks or battens created from a single piece of timber, usually a hardwood. Continue to prepare seedbeds outside, using planks to stand on if the soil you are working on is very wet. The problem with plain sawing is that the outer planks tend to warp. The boat was made using oak planks sewn together with yew lashings. The pronaoi in all the churches have flat low ceilings made up of planks. One of the core favorite foodstuffs is Pacific salmon, native to many of the larger rivers of the area and often smoked or grilled on cedar planks. Customers of the Group mainly include manufacturers of floor planks, sound box, furniture, doors and window frames and wholesalers of wooden panels. Tomolo'o, the Chumash word for such a craft, may derive from kumula'au, the Hawaiian term for the logs from which shipwrights carve planks to be sewn into canoes. The girl tossed the book on the planks of the swing and rocked back and forth, as she pulled the scrunchi out of her hair and rebound her ponytail. I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks. The floors were generally packed earth, though planks were sometimes used. Here, the cabinet's sides have also been overlayed with planks. He got a job at the lumberyard, working the big saw for planks. Note also that in engineering terms such items are of little other utility, being too small for cutting and too gracile for graving, shaving, splitting planks and so on. Nowadays, stockade walls are often used as garden fencing, made of finished planks more useful for privacy fencing and more decoration than security. Whenever they were going to take a firebath, they removed those wood planks and laid some in the back area of the qasgi and some on the edge of the bedding. On 5 July 1948, the National Insurance Act, National Assistance Act and National Health Service Act came into force, forming the key planks of the modern UK welfare state. Show More Sentences Pat the peppadews dry with paper towels. With a small spoon, fill the peppadews with goat cheese. Arrange the stuffed peppadews on the planks and drizzle with olive oil. The keel was an inverted T shape to accept the garboard planks. Robyn Gardener decided she wanted a flatter tummy and compiled a 30-day programme for June consisting of sit-ups, crunches, leg raises and planks. Examples from Classical Literature The hole was soon dug and the anchor deposited therein, planks and baulks of timber being laid upon it as before. A boat is carvel-built when the planks are laid edge to edge so that they present a smooth surface without. To return from Fe to SaaS on the day following he found it necessary to carry two planks. I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks. On deck, the men began to holystone the planks, polish up the brasswork, and make everything shipshape for port. I could hear the pattering of their feet upon the planks as they scampered away. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings. The planks at his feet had started to dither again, and practice told him that the vessel must be moving. It seemed to her that the hard, whipsawed planks were pushing through the soft flesh to the bones. They thundered on the planks of the drawbridge and clattered on the stones of the courtyard. A considerable amount of water oak is cut in the South into thick planks for bridge floors. He clawed with his hands, but the planks was slippery, and he slid astern fast. The ends of valuable boards and planks are sometimes painted or cleated, which in a measure prevents this result. Roofs are transverse beams, which in turn hold small cross branches or planks. Curiously primitive, the telega is four-wheeled, with two planks thrown crudely across the axle-trees. It was three planks thick, crossed one another and bradded together wid iron nails. They rose from the tombstone, and were soon hidden in the shadow of a pile of planks. Formerly the Malagasy never thought of obtaining more than two planks out of a single tree, however large the tree might be. Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood. A lamp hung on the forestay as a beacon for the boats and one could see the sweep of planks and line of the rail. Show More Sentences Perhaps, suggested Bell, we might make a ship out of some of the planks of the porpoise. The hull was made of stout oak planks, sheathed with greenheart and lined with fir. He recognised the odour of the grass, the shadows of the planks, the holes in the wall. Her bottom was stove in, her planks and timbers were riven like matchwood. Thick planks on the decks, in midships, between the hatchways. Pines generally produce straight trunks, which permit the elaboration of pieces of carpentry such as crosspieces or planks. His stony, unwinking stare was fixed on the planks of the deck. Place planks over the turf you've just laid which you can walk on while laying the next row of turves. Scarcely had he done so ere a party of armored knights and men-at-arms clanked out upon the planks above him from the mouth of the dark alley. The azure billows of the sea splashed round the planks of the vessel. When we get to Lake Linderman, and the trees are chopped and whipsawed into planks, I'll boss the building of the boat. Are there plenty of boards, planks and boxes around your barn, Fenn? Nailed several anti-saloon and burlesque planks in his platform. They had scarce reached it, however, ere they found that the wooden joists and planks of the flooring were already on fire. Place planks on the turf you have laid to walk on while laying the next row. The foremost and aftermost planks of the bottom, within and without. By day he cooked as well, and, in the betweenwhiles, helped Anson in the building of the boat beside the torrent as the green planks came down. Around its base was piled sawdust, held in place by heavy planks nailed to the floor. Dave removes the planks covering the sawpit then opens the green metal casing. Fuchs selected boards from a pile of planks grandfather had hauled out from town in the fall to make a new floor for the oats-bin. Show More Sentences So I had to pile the night coal higher and higher, buttressing up the heap with stout planks. On a recent bird hunt we had to cross a couple of creeks on narrow planks, and work our way down some steep sidehills. The planks for the floor and sheeting were cut out by the whip saw. Beneath the planks he found a skiff which he had moored there earlier in the evening, and underneath one of the thwarts he hid the bundle. The Army solution was to commission the building of plates of bolted sturdy oak planks to substitute for missing railroad car spanners. Every square foot of her decks was impressed indelibly on my brain, to the very grain and knots of the planks. The seaman dodged, and the cider mug spun into the planks of a jolly boat. It was Doctor Stevens, pacing along the planks of the landing stage. On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but we stuffed two or three drawers and shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for the time. Contraptions are made simply by stacking the planks and allowing the two bouncy Keva balls to roll, twist, bump, bounce, hop, and stop. About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. He had sat down on the stern of his boat and was kicking his heels against the planks, waiting to hear what I had to answer. The tone is a rowing boat, the planks of which are sewn together. There are several cots, some made of coir, and others of wooden planks. This done, he marshalled the planks and his tools, and to work. O'Clair went to the fairgrounds, took the bleacher planks and some wire from under the main stage, then tried to sell it at Starr Scrap Metal Inc. We seem called on to envisage a ship with a clinker-built hull of overlapping planks, a single square sail, and a complex of standing and running rigging. At the same time, I observed, around both of them, splashes of dark blood upon the planks and began to feel sure that they had killed each other in their drunken wrath. One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced with a spear thrust through the planks of the bridge from a boat beneath. Attractive design flourishes include tongue-and-groove stained and weathered teakwood planks in the coffered-ceiling foyer and a double-trey ceiling in the master suite. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with planks What is the adjective for planks? What is the noun for planks? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words planking planked Plank plank planisphere planing Planks plank-sheer planktivorous plankton planktonic planless 6-letter Words Starting With p pl pla plan plank