Woodwork

//ˈwʊdˌwɝk//

"Woodwork" in a Sentence (20 examples)

As soon as they realized the mayor was on his way down, his critics started coming out of the woodwork.

At first only a few people protested, but now they're all coming out of the woodwork.

My grandfather completed the woodwork and my grandmother finished the piece with paint.

Tom dashed into the room amid a shower of sparks and splinters of burning woodwork.

A milling machine is typically used to produce precise cuts in woodwork.

The ball was struck towards goal only to come crashing off the woodwork and back into play.

They really came out of the woodwork after that.

The ball clattered off the woodwork.

Howell Hall was a big, old house, almost two hundred years old. It was a kind of house called a Victorian. Old Victorians can be beautiful, with tall windows and detailed woodwork. But not Howell Hall. It looked dark and oppressive, not bright and cheerful like the other houses in the neighborhood.

Whenever there's a scandal, reporters come out of the woodwork.

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Some woodwork and the plaster ceiling medallions have been duplicated to match the originals.

He does woodwork as a hobby.

The unthinking man assumes that if woodwork is to be taught, the best person to do it must be a carpenter

out of the woodwork

Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.

So when he wants to, he can just kind of blend into the woodwork.

That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork.

Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.

"Instead of 'woodworking,' or disappearing into the mainstream — as we are capable of and qualified to do — we have chosen not to do so." Outside of the transsexual community, other changes were taking place that made it possible for[…]

Maybe — and this was essential for political activism — you didn't have to "woodwork" but could be transgendered for all to see. By the mid '90s the Internet had arrived — and spread these new ideas like wildfire.[…]

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