How To Use Two-by-four In A Sentence
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It wasn't a two-by-four, it was a four-by-four piece of pressure treated lumber.
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Measure the width of the front dropout, and cut a length of two-by-four to the same width.
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Locally purchased plywood, two-by-fours, and concrete blocks can also be used as targets.
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Inside, Nicholas saw a gleaming teak and stainless-steel motoscafo set on a low scaffold of raw two-by-fours.
The Kaisho
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The piece consisted of a horizontal 33-foot-long plywood shaft held at eye level on two-by-fours.
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He worked his foot over the two-by-four, pressing his toe against its end, then snapped his foot out.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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All right, all right, Lieutenant, there's no reason to beat me over the head with a two-by-four.
SAN ANDREAS
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The one timber term everyone knew, the four-by-two, perversely called a two-by-four by Americans, seems not to be replaced by a widely known term.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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In the final hour of motorcycle training, students are assigned tougher maneuvers, including taking their bikes over obstacles such as two-by-fours.
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We made everything out of thick plywood, two-by-fours and four-by-fours.
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At eleven o'clock on Sunday morning at Home Depot or Lowe's the lines of folks with cans of paint, two-by-fours, and joint cement stretch almost as far as they do on a Saturday morning.
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On the right side of the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut Styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours and a single turned wooden leg.
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You'll need four eight-foot two-by-fours to frame out that wall.
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Raised on two-by-fours laid on their sides, the room's plasterboard floor floated above the gallery's to create a fragile platform that could not be walked upon.
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But the transmission problem had resurfaced, and the couple had to place two-by-fours under the wheels to keep the truck from rolling across the motel parking lot.
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Hit me over the head with a two-by-four long enough and I'll see the point as fast as any man.
SAN ANDREAS
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The children played musical chairs in the living room, miniature golf in the back yard, and rode wagons made with skates, two-by-fours, and apple boxes.
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They picked out an odd assortment of two-by-fours and pieces of plywood and loaded it into my pickup truck.
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I must go down to the basement at once with my trusty two-by-four and administer a few more bracing wallops.
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The next step was to build a 16-foot easel with two-by-fours and plywood, which he set up in his studio.
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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.
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Jimmy's bashing my head in with a two-by-four!
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On the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours.
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Dunlap uses sawhorses built from two-by-fours, but you can also use PVC or logs.
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It is the place to get fishing permits and marriage licenses—and to pick up a quick education in historic joinery: The 18th-century gunstock posts and exposed framing of hewn white oak put sheetrock and two-by-fours to shame.
Town Hall Assembly
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The story begins with the Wright brothers, ‘inventors’ of flight, who successfully threw a series of intricately connected two-by-fours off a ledge high enough so that they did not land for a full 12 seconds.
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He took a two-by-four and whopped him upside the head.
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The set is a jungle gym, representative of all that is good on the recess playground; yet it is built in a shoddy fashion, with screws protruding dangerously and with two-by-fours not lined up properly.
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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.
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It is the place to get fishing permits and marriage licenses—and to pick up a quick education in historic joinery: The 18th-century gunstock posts and exposed framing of hewn white oak put sheetrock and two-by-fours to shame.
Town Hall Assembly
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Still, it was have been nice to have whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, but that would have been wrong.
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A sharp knife is not required to chop the story to pieces; a dull two-by-four will suffice.
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Gavin is in the basement sawing away at his two-by-fours and a load of stolen plywood, so I answer it.
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Using plywood and two-by-fours, the soldiers built in a channeled floor for laying cable, wooden walls and added a 66K Btu air conditioner to keep the room cool.
