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19 examples of Timbers in a sentence

Waves tossed the boat around, and the timbers groaned.
Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.
But there are many wonders back in there, like this weird fungus on some of the collapsed timbers.
These ships were powered by sail and oars and relied on a strong skeleton of internal timbers fastened to the outer planks with copper, iron, and wood nails.
This guy built a bowling alley in his backyard, out of landscaping timbers, astroturf.
The steps came creaking up the stairs--the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads--they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ruined stairway.
The building was constructed of roughly squared timbers, with rooms on both sides, four in number, all opening out into the one passage: these were the kitchen, the weaving shop, the badstofa, or family sleeping-room, and the visitors' room, which was the best of all.
The instruments, the tools, our guns, are clashing and clanking violently in their collisions with each other; the nails of my boots cling tenaciously to a plate of iron let into the timbers, and I cannot draw my foot away from the spot.
By George, gentlemen, our balls just stuck in her timbers like stones in a mud wall.
It was not until after careful calculation and deep thought that the timbers were laid on the keel.
The frame was to rest on a pivot supported with strong timbers, so that it could turn with all the machinery it contained according as the wind required it.
The "Bonadventure" would doubtlessly not have capsized, for she was well ballasted, but enormous masses of water falling on the deck might injure her if her timbers could not sustain them.
The report was not loud, and besides there are so few planks and timbers torn out.
During this time his companions employed themselves in felling and carting trees to furnish the ribs, timbers, and planks.
During the following week they fixed the first of the stern timbers, but were then obliged to suspend work.
The ribs were almost entirely completed, and, all the timbers having been sustained by a provisional band, the shape of the vessel could already be seen.
All the colonists, their services thus requisitioned by Pencroft, descended to the dockyard, and proceeded to place the keelson, a thick mass of wood which forms the lower portion of a ship and unites firmly the timbers of the hull.
Pierre took the tiller, and, holding his cigar between his teeth,he stretched his legs on the bunk, and with his eyes half-shut in theblinding sunshine, he watched the great tarred timbers of the breakwateras they glided past.
He had arranged to give the feast on a gigantic raft, framed of gilded timbers.