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How to use balsa in a sentence

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A relatively poor country, Equador exports bananas and balsa, a fact of interest to Matthew.
Hunt constructed these lightweight volumes from thin ribs of spruce or balsa wood before sheathing them in layers of silk paper and metal leaf.
Once I have finished the stem, the balsa wood is removed from the drill chuck.
I had some drilled balsa bodies and I inserted a length of brass welding rod in one end and a swivel in the other.
Then there was the time some company put cheap balsa wood model airplanes inside the conference tote bag.
If you're thinking of building an escape raft, all you'll get is balsa wood.
His model aircraft were usually scruffy constructions of paper and balsa wood and far from aerodynamically efficient.
For example, balsa wood is one of the lightest, least dense woods there is, and it's considered a hardwood.
The model with its precarious bits of balsa wood just as it was, glued down, was kept for more than a year.
The deck and cabin structure are a sandwich construction utilizing plywood rather than balsa as a core material.
Unlike his California contemporaries, Snyder primarily used balsa wood removed from scrapped Navy life rafts.
I wonder if architects even still build those cute models out of foamcore and balsa wood anymore.
Two wide wing bracing struts were built from steel tube and balsa wood and fabric covered.
One of these was to build models of an earthquake-proof house out of balsa wood.
The hull sides and decks utilize a balsa wood core between fiberglass laminates for weight reduction and stiffness.
Though longboards remained popular during the early 60's, balsa wood had been almost exclusively exchanged for foam and fiberglass.
The decks and cabin house are a fiberglass composite with a balsa wood core.
In the past he has replicated rolls of floral-printed toilet paper in silk, modeled Tupperware cups of beeswax and created sponges of balsa wood.
A balsa wood core is used between fiberglass laminates in both the hull and deck.
Deck construction includes either balsa wood or plywood sandwiched between fiberglass laminates.
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He made a landing on a sand-spit that struck off from an outward curve of the bank, and dragged the balsa out of the water.
The first time was when, during my passage of the lake on a balsa, one of my companions had the misfortune to fall into the water.
The people and houses crossed it swimming, and the baggage was carried over in a balsa, a sort of hide-raft.
Up betimes upon the morning of our second day on shore, for a drive to the balsa.
On this coast we again meet with wooden canoes, although the balsa, or tule raft, is also in use.
Passing through the gates the bearers placed the balsa on the ground and fell back.
Also among the ruins of the balsa we found some of the dried fish that was left to us, and having washed it, filled ourselves.
A canoe formed from the trunk of a large tree, generally cedar or balsa wood.
Behind yonder rock is my balsa and with it are the two maidens.
The dead insects found in the nectar of balsa wood belonged to the orders Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera, with great predominance of Hymenopterous species.
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