Planks

Politics is the drilling of very thick planks.

He is as thick as two short planks.

If all the planks that make up the ship of Theseus were replaced, would it still be the same ship?

Dolphins leaped from the sea around the vessels, and broke many planks with their tails.

Strewn here and there behold / arms, planks, lone swimmers in the surges grey, / and treasures snatched from Trojan homes away.

"Grant us to draw our scattered fleet ashore, / and fit new planks and branches for the oar. / So, if with king and comrades brought again, / the Fates allow us to reach Italia's shore, / Italia gladly and the Latian plain / seek we."

No! he must not die; so she swam toward him all among the drifting beams and planks, quite forgetting that they might crush her.

Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.

These planks of wood are still a long way from becoming a piece of furniture.

There's a long way to go before these planks of wood become a piece of furniture.