sawdust

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• The Army fashioned lead shields and built walls of 55-gallon drums filled with ice and sawdust trying to protect the operators from radiation.

• This design is also suited for indoor work like cleaning up sawdust and other debris from work areas.

• Neither has a single hole to show for it, despite months of sweat, sawdust, and getting shoved into and pulled out of my bag every day.

• All that scraping produces bone dust, which settles on the seafloor like sawdust under a workbench.

• Before the FDA started cracking down, grocers might stretch your coffee with other kinds of beans, your flour with sawdust.

• His world is a sensual swirl—the cold, shady woods and sun-warmed meadows, the sweaty bakery and sawdust-filled house.

• Today Maddow concedes that occasionally she must come down off her trapeze and strut in the sawdust with the rest of the circus.

• The cylinder and steam-pipes were surrounded with sawdust about 20 inches in thickness, as a non-conductor of heat.

• Mind, I don't accept conventional morality; it is no more to me than so much sawdust.

• “I wish I could get at the sawdust that I am stuffed with,” Hadria thought dreamily, as she watched the doll grow flabbier.

• Sawdust-packed thermite grenades were stacked right up to the perforated pipes of the sprinkler system.

• After the articles are dipped into the solution they are removed and thoroughly washed, then dried in sawdust to prevent streaks.