LUMBER in a Sentence

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For LUMBER, below is one of 71 sentences:
She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUMBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lumber
 v.  move heavily or clumsily; cut down timber of
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Only one thing weighed on him, and that was his having told Zeena that he was to receive cash for the lumber.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  This plan had the advantage of enabling him to send Jotham to the Flats after dinner to meet Zenobia, while he himself took the lumber down to the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  And anyone who owns a sawmill owns a gold mine, for nowadays you can ask your own price for lumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  They can t get enough lumber and they can't get it fast enough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  They've got to have lumber for their houses, so I'm going to buy this mill just as soon as--well, as soon as some of the bills owing me are paid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  She could see for herself how quickly the town was rebuilding and anyone who could establish a lumber business now, when there was so little competition, would have a gold mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  Anybody could, with lumber selling at such outrageous prices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  There aren't many sawmills around here now, and the way people are rebuilding--why, we could sell lumber sky high.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  "Go into the lumber business myself," was the way she put it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  She frequently did take a day off from the mill and peddle lumber and, on those days, Frank wished he could hide in the dark back room of his store and see no one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  She said her lumber was better and cheaper too, and to prove it she ran up a long column of figures in her head and gave him an estimate then and there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Shouldering the shell-pitted houses patched with bits of old lumber and smoke-blackened bricks, the fine homes of the Carpetbaggers and war profiteers were rising, with mansard roofs, gables and turrets, stained-glass windows and wide lawns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  Prices of lumber, brick and stone soared and Scarlett kept the mill running from dawn until lantern light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  After its long hibernation, the bear was hard to lumber through the woods.
2  The demand for lumber is going to be the same so for every tree that comes from the water saves one potentially on dry land.
3  I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.
4  Rhinos, those huge, lumbering herbivores, are a perfect prey.
5  I was lumbered with the job of taking charge of all the money.
6  The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
7  His mind is lumbered with foolish ideas.
8  Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer.