Used in a Sentence

wooden

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wooden.

Editorial note

Is a coracle made from animal skins stretched over wooden frames equivalent to Cousteau Society's turbosail ship Alcyone?

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wooden gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

adjective

Made of wood.

adjective

(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wooden.

adjective

(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

Example sentences

1

Is a coracle made from animal skins stretched over wooden frames equivalent to Cousteau Society's turbosail ship Alcyone?

2

Note the difference in sound between a plastic and wooden recorder, one of the simplest woodwinds.

3

The devices of concern are stored in a cardboard box on a wooden bench?

4

Tile floors (or something else that's non-flammable) as opposed to carpet or wooden ones.

5

A nice example is HMS Victory, a wooden warship that saw battle at Trafalgar.

6

The United States Navy still has at least one wind- powered wooden ship.

7

One day during break I came across him repeatedly hitting his head against a wooden wall.

8

I glued it to a wooden backboard and it's very obvious where there is glue.

9

They have a very different feel from the iconic Blackwing 602 Palomino wooden pencils which I use for hand written drafts.

10

This is a boat where you're given some wooden spoons.

11

When people are texting, most of the faces remain wooden.

12

A wooden bucket works well, a metal bucket does not.

Quote examples

1

Would you go to Yankee Stadium and stop Derek Jeter on the way into work, just to ask him "Hey, does Major League Baseball use metal bats, or wooden bats?"

2

But you don't need to use spurious examples -- in another comment, you provided a very genuine one: "red" and "wooden" are both clearly adjectives, and their ordering cannot vary.

3

Even a terrible plastic bassoon costs thousands of dollars, and a "good" bassoon is $20k-40k last I checked, though you can get lucky on a used wooden one, which still won't come cheaply.

4

"Brick ancient barn" is of course weird and wrong unless you really want to emphasize that this is a brick ancient barn and not a wooden ancient barn like all the other ancient barns.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wooden in a sentence?

Is a coracle made from animal skins stretched over wooden frames equivalent to Cousteau Society's turbosail ship Alcyone?

What does wooden mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is wooden?

wooden is commonly used as noun, adjective.