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How to use two-by-four in a sentence

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Level the top edge of the pond by using a carpenter's level on a straight two-by-four placed across the pond.
It wasn't a two-by-four, it was a four-by-four piece of pressure treated lumber.
Measure the width of the front dropout, and cut a length of two-by-four to the same width.
I spend my entire life in this two-by-four shack taking care of those two kids and then you come home from work and what do you do?
He had the entire floor finished, it was plywood nailed onto a two-by-four frame supported by a sturdy cinder block foundation.
I must go down to the basement at once with my trusty two-by-four and administer a few more bracing wallops.
Still, it was have been nice to have whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, but that would have been wrong.
The industry has agreed that a two-by-four piece of wood would, once sawn and dried, have the dimensions of 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches.
But had he really put away his two-by-four?
It costs 20 times more to buy a piece of two-by-four to build their homes, not because they are aboriginal but because of the geographic reality of this country.
It's like a two-by-four wrapped in red velvet.
Before it becomes a two-by-four, every tree in the forest is alive.
The two-by-four moves up and down, pushed by the rotation of the cams.
The compression members are two-by-four timbers.
Like someone whacking the floor with a two-by-four.
She'd brought a piece of two-by-four, and, with a rock as a fulcrum, set to work levering the huge animal off the lip of the coulee.
Many kids would make scooters by attaching the rough, steel wheels to a two-by-four with a milk crate on it and then adding wooden handlebars for steering.
Brakes squeal like a nail yanked from a two-by-four.
What about the law against the IRS smacking Tea Party-type nonprofits over the head with a two-by-four?
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
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Using the two-by-four as a fulcrum, he began levering the door upward and outward.
And time after time Stud brought the two-by-four crashing down between the maddened animal's eyes.
Zircon had found a piece of two-by-four lumber about eight feet long, and he was swinging it like a flail.
I say, Phil, should this two-by-four go in with the big side out, or the narrow?
At the third jump his hat flew off, disclosing the jagged end of a two-by-four.
You would have compressed me into a two-by-four pigeonhole of life, where all life's values are unreal, and false, and vulgar.
There isn't much room for the Triangle in a two-by-four shack.
Thats what comes of blatting things in a two-by-four burg like this.
Why, in America, half-a-dozen two-by-four bits would be ample.
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