two-by-four

NOUN
  1. a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section
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How To Use two-by-four In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • Locally purchased plywood, two-by-fours, and concrete blocks can also be used as targets.
  • Inside, Nicholas saw a gleaming teak and stainless-steel motoscafo set on a low scaffold of raw two-by-fours. The Kaisho
  • Level the top edge of the pond by using a carpenter's level on a straight two-by-four placed across the pond.
  • Seventy-five percent of British Columbia's cut comes from the east side of the Coast Mountains, much of it from the Chilcotin, and 90 percent of that goes to the United States, half as wood chips for paper, half as two-by-fours.
  • You could use just downlights or two-by-four fixtures to light the space and get functional light, but it wouldn't feel like anything; it wouldn't feel as if you had arrived someplace.
  • 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?
  • Lower prices caused by weak demand have compounded the problem; the export price of 1,000 board-feet of two-by-fours fell to $288 in December from around $400 a year earlier.
  • The piece consisted of a horizontal 33-foot-long plywood shaft held at eye level on two-by-fours.
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