Sapwood used in a sentence

Sapwood in a sentence as a noun

They carefully included heartwood for the front and sapwood for the rear of the bow. That gave the bow the most strength and benefits of a modern laminate bow in a single piece of wood.

Non-heart or mixed heartwood/sapwood redwood can look like what is shown. Although the sapwood has very little resistance to insects, at least in southern CA where I build stuff.

It takes about 15 years to get a good heartwood and sapwood ratio as well as the best quality for the best oil distillation. It has to follow a very strict crop and host planting rotation.

When they were taken down, most of the stumps were soft enough to crumble with your fingertips and the sapwood was completely webbed with borer holes. About a month after they took the trees down, we had the worst thunderstorm in years.

As the article explains, the longbow is composite, but made from a single piece of wood: "Figure 1 illustrates a yew trunk cross section and how a longbow stave was carved out of the tree to incorporate both its sapwood and heartwood components. The former was used on the bow’s back, which faced away from the archer, taking advantage of the fact that flexible sapwood performs well under tension.