woodshed
/ˈwʊdʃɛd/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwʊdʃɛd/
woodshed
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short oo vowel
- Ending
- Past ending sound
wood - shed -> woodshed
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- ‘She led him to the woodshed, where a candle burned just bright enough to catch the fine wisps of steam rising from the freshly warmed bathwater.’
- ‘Harry decided we were not worth further consideration, gathered up his prize and took himself off behind the woodshed.’
- ‘A motley collection of bones and antlers is nailed to the woodshed.’
- ‘Kennedy felt like he was on a trip to the woodshed.’
- ‘Those are now hung to dry in the woodshed until it is time to bring them indoors, and use them, decked with huge scarlet bows, as Christmas decorations.’
- ‘I also suggest he leaves the axe in the woodshed when he next looks for a lobster.’
- ‘He always lived in strangers' unheated woodsheds and in return would herd their geese and cows.’
- ‘I raced outside and into the woodshed, where I cried till I was wrung dry and empty.’
- ‘Three hours later the woodshed had acquired a doorcase in strict neoclassical style, with pilasters, triglyphs, and a cornice, and he was looking positively pleased with himself, as he rolled off up the hill to face the music.’
- ‘During the day my sister and I would play in the tall grasses, or watch grandpa building something in his woodshed.’
- ‘The woodshed is the size of a single-car garage.’
- ‘Gussie went crazy and I had to put him into a little run that Jane and her brother had constructed in back of the woodshed.’
- ‘I fancy Sir Arthur Throckmorton would have seen the joke, when after four centuries a carpenter found his diary, all three volumes of it - in a woodshed.’
- ‘Completing the arrangement of domestic buildings is the woodshed, a building that was vital for the fires that both warmed the house and cooked the food.’
- ‘The woman led Alex out a back door and to a woodshed.’
- ‘This has given me ample opportunity to perfect my carpentry skills: Just as I finish building rabbit hutches, chicken coops and woodsheds, I have to start again at a new location.’
- ‘Half an hour later Hitomi found herself inside a woodshed in a corner; her legs and hands were tied.’
- ‘Feeling inadequate, Marc offered to go the woodshed and restore the wood pile beside the fireplace.’
- ‘They were disarmed and piled up in the woodshed like the evil that they were.’
- ‘And evidently this time apart allowed the two to approach their partnership rejuvenated and ready for some serious woodshedding, as they reportedly recorded dozens of tracks before pruning down to these relatively lean 14 songs.’
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