17 Sentences With "chunk of wood"

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"It's these single-issue voters who gnaw on that chunk of wood," Mr. Frantz said. from The New York Times
The ants are coming from the chunk of wood I just put on the fire. from The New York Times
The verse sounds like being thumped on the head with a large chunk of wood then dragged backwards through thick sludge. from Vice
Multiple times I threw down a chunk of wood, hoping for the best, only to almost smoke myself out of the house. from Refinery 29
Here's footage showing …Read more ReadTurning a chunk of wood into something beautiful is satisfying to watchHere is Alan Holland performing his craft: woodturning. from Gizmodo
My favorite is "Tree Nob 2," in which an expressively sculpted white plaster phallus rises like a mushroom from a small chunk of wood. from The New York Times
Typically, it's an actual chunk of wood — people use slabs of lumber, bread boards and cutting boards — topped with tableaus of foodstuffs, offered for communal eating. from Washington Post
A rock the size of a baseball could be seen at the scene as well as a small chunk of wood that was examined on the ground. from CNN
It's just fascinating to see the process of it all: from the selection of the willow tree for the wood, to the brutal shaping of it, to the careful turning to transform a single chunk of wood into multiple bowls. from Gizmodo
A library of trees The team has tested several different types of samples, but ultimately found the best solution to be a 11 cm long chunk of wood that is acquired by researchers like Moundounga hammering a steel punch into a tree. from CNN
BIS results are categorized on a scale from zero to 100: Zero is the absence of electrical activity — a chunk of wood would score a zero on the bispectral index — while 90 to 100 is consistent with full cerebral function in a living human. from The New York Times
That same veneration is given to every single object on the pyramid, no matter how seemingly random: Swampdog's photograph of Dwayne Wade and Alonzo Mourning, Ahol's wisdom teeth, notes from ex-lovers, old ATM machines, life vests, a crisp suit jacket hanging from a jutting chunk of wood. from Vice
He takes a big chunk of wood, spins it on a …Read more ReadWatching CGI silly putty creatures fall on top of each other is hilariously satisfyingI can't help but laugh when I watch these CGI silly putty creatures fall down and smack the ground…Read more ReadRelax with this time-lapse of a guy making a knife with everyday toolsAaron Gough makes great custom knives. from Gizmodo
Drysdale tells her he can save her brother if she agrees to marry him. Leaving the church she and her new husband, no sooner reach their waiting coach that he attempts to unbutton her dress. Her small Cavalier King Charles Spaniel barks at Drysdale, who throws it to the floor of the coach and stomps it to death. Just then a gun ball blows a chunk of wood from the coach beside Drysdale's head.
The bombardment resumed and the artillery sergeant detailed to haul the flag was the next casualty, cut in half by a cannonball. That afternoon, a chunk of wood from the smashed barracks struck down artillery Captain James Lee and knocked Fleury unconscious. When Hazelwood's ships tried to attack Vigilant and Fury, fire from the British naval squadron drove them back. By this time the interior of the fort was furrowed with the tracks of cannonballs and the barracks and blockhouses were wrecked.
The lyrics "Peter Pumpkinhead was too good; Had him nailed to a chunk of wood" reinforce this crucifixion reference. It also cross references all three stories by strongly implying that the death of all three were caused by some sort of government conspiracy. It is of note that during the last verse of the uncensored video, there are shots of evidence bags marked with the tags "X" (possibly a reference to Malcolm X), "R" (possibly a reference to Robert F. Kennedy) and (together) "J" and "F".
Jones had praise only for the chorus of "Spaceman", likening the remainder of the record to "being thumped on the head with a large chunk of wood then dragged backwards through thick sludge". The Guardian and Q, who initially published favourable reviews, have named the record one of the worst of all time. In a 1999 Guardian article, critic Andrew Mueller labelled The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes "one of the most hilariously terrible albums ever made". Q staff ranked the LP at number 42 in their 2006 list of the 50 worst records in history, calling it an "album of lumpen MOR rock" that "sank without trace".