How To Use Woodpile In A Sentence
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Rats are routinely moving into yards, burrowing beneath doghouses, sheds, sidewalks, and hiding out in woodpiles.
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When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile.
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There are woodpiles, tractors, apple-cheeked matrons - and then the wines.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the title piece of Steven Millhauser's collection of new and selected stories, "We Others" Knopf, 387 pages, $27.95 , the "we" refers to phantoms who infiltrate picket-fenced suburbia—becoming "the companions of lawn mowers in toolsheds, of gas grills beside tarp-covered woodpiles"—and who try in vain to join the lives of the people who live there.
Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth'
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My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile.
The Promised Land
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In the woodpile he noticed "shinny-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping – he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here.
The Second Chance
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I walked in; and there in a corner on a woodpile was a real nice pair of pants, and a collar and cravat, and a coat and a tin lunch-bucket, which had been eaten -- the lunch had.
Mary Cary "Frequently Martha"
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One tossed the stuff I'd just split on the woodpile while the other set another piece up on the block.
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The brown box sandwiched between the green-and-white EKO boiler and the woodpile is a coal burner which must have supplemented wood heat at one point.
Bob Lewis's blog
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Also don't forget that your woodpile also looks like heaven to termites, so it's best to only keep a week or so worth of wood near the house in easy reach.
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A construction technique called ‘the woodpile’ which creates a diamond lattice, requires years to produce a workable structure.
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In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place-Jerusalem.
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Keep the woodpile far enough away from the fire so sparks and flames cannot reach it.
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He went to the woodpile and found a piece of stovewood big enough to bridge the gap between his foot and the pedal.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Rose came to her senses a moment later, and, trembling and sobbing uncontrolledly, stumbled through the darkness to the woodpile, and sat down on it.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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Only the woodpile, friendly mossy logs unsplit, stood inconscient and irresponsible for any share in his black circumstances; and his tears fell among the lichens of the stump he was bowed on till, observing them, he began to wonder whether he could cry enough to make a pond there, and was presently disappointed to find the source exhausted.
The Imperialist
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Do not mow weedy sites or dismantle woodpiles, which provide them safe shelter in the off-season.
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As he passed the woodpile, he remembered that his wife wanted wood in the house.
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When I looked out the window later, I saw that the big wind had simply toppled the other woodpile out back and gone away, leaving rain pouring on it.
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They often live in dry, littered and undisturbed areas, such as in closets, in woodpiles and under sinks.
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Pierre pointed to the scattered chips by the woodpile.
THE GREAT INTERROGATION
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She stacked several armloads of wood from the woodpile near the door next to the stove and warmed her hands.
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Good additional habitats have been created, for example woodpiles which encourage insects and newts.
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Lon McFane leaped from the woodpile, countering him in midair.
The Men of Forty Mile
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Archive 2008-02-01
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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It would be their job, in shifts of two hours each so that they could enjoy the fair as well, to bring wood to Maria and the other cooks from a central woodpile.
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My mother recently found one of the journals I kept during my wanderings in the 90's, buried at the bottom of one of my old tin trunks that had been sitting out beside the woodpile at the lodge for a few years, and mailed it to me.
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One night, unable to find a suitable weapon in the house, he stormed outside to the woodpile to get one of the right length and shape.
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He was worried to find his boots lying at the cabin door. the children playing on the woodpile told him that "mither" said they were so heavy she couldn't walk in them, and she had come back and taken them off.
Freckles
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Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain.
Farouche
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Do not mow weedy sites or dismantle woodpiles, which provide them safe shelter in the off-season.
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She'd head outside and check the horses and the flowers and the woodpile.
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If you'd had the sense to wear your shirt the other day when you were out chopping wood, instead of leaving it on the woodpile, you wouldn't have got a chill.
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Most clematis will require staking so the twining leaf petioles can cling and climb upward, though some gardeners choose to let the plants sprawl over the ground, over woodpiles, other plants, etc.
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One learns to look along the perimeters of fossil woodpiles, where the sediments still demonstrate the appropriate coarse-grained textures.
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Lon McFane leaped from the woodpile, countering him in midair.
The Men of Forty-Mile
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Wearing dust masks and wielding rakes and shovels, the volunteers hauled brush, moved woodpiles, cleared away dead vegetation, and pruned branches from trees close to the homes, protecting 15 in all.
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Finally, the bird, while searching for the mouse, accidentally knocked over the woodpile, which caught fire.
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I now have perches that I salvaged from the woodpile in my back yard.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Suggest that anyone at all should be looked for in the "woodpile"?
Archive 2009-05-01
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Additional cover can be made from hollow logs, stacked rocks, and woodpiles, which form perfect hiding places for lizards, quail, rabbits, and other small animals.
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Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain.
Farouche
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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Watery veins stood out and his forehead looked like a stolen woodpile.
Albino
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A couple of slim baguettes of French bread slid into the woodpile ought to do the trick.
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By keeping lawns mowed and trimmed; clearing brush, leaf litter, and tall grass; and stacking woodpiles off the ground, you will reduce the prevalence of ticks.
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I now have perches that I salvaged from the woodpile in my back yard.
Chicken Update
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He was worried to find his boots lying at the cabin door; the children playing on the woodpile told him that "mither" said they were so heavy she couldn't walk in them, and she had come back and taken them off.
Freckles
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He frowned at the woodpile, then started climbing it.
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Isabelle squinted her eyes, opened them wide, tilted her head left, then right, as she watched Grete walk out to the front yard to check on a patch of silverweed she was cultivating by the woodpile.
Falling In
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They may start out infesting the fence surrounding your property, the woodpile out back or even the utility pole across the street.
