Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sawdust
IPA transcription: [s'ɔd,ʌst]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sawdust
    Meaning: fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
Usage examples
  • Perhaps you do your sawdust best."
  • The sun-heated sawdust steamed furiously.
  • But my doll was not stuffed with sawdust, for all of that.
  • "It does seem as though there must be fire under this sawdust now."
  • One of them paints sawdust in a delicatessen factory at twelve dollars per.
  • Fire couldn't be deep down in the sawdust and the smoke come out of the tree top."
  • Perhaps for yards and yards around, the interior of the sawdust heap was a glowing furnace.
  • The falling water was like a drop-curtain, swept across the stage of the open tract of sawdust.
  • "This sawdust is mighty hard-packed, and feet deep," interrupted Tom. "The fire might be deep down."
  • But underneath the packed surface of the sawdust, the heat of summer had been drying out the moisture for weeks.