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  • noun Plural form of toolshed.

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Examples

  • How many squirrels do you know that built rocket ships and flew them to the moon, built whirlybirds that run on coconut milk, or have a secret army of robots in their toolsheds?

    Interview with SpongeBob on education Post 2011

  • When the little people downsize into their toolsheds, it's not long before they start getting reacquainted with their pitchforks.

    Doctor's order Tom Toles 2011

  • In the title piece of Steven Millhauser's collection of new and selected stories, "We Others" Knopf, 387 pages, $27.95 , the "we" refers to phantoms who infiltrate picket-fenced suburbia—becoming "the companions of lawn mowers in toolsheds, of gas grills beside tarp-covered woodpiles"—and who try in vain to join the lives of the people who live there.

    Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth' Sam Sacks 2011

  • In mild weather teams of oxen dragged the bounteous cargo away from the docks to be stored in basements and toolsheds; when the snows arrived horse-drawn sleighs did the toting.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In mild weather teams of oxen dragged the bounteous cargo away from the docks to be stored in basements and toolsheds; when the snows arrived horse-drawn sleighs did the toting.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Another restrictive device was found by rummaging about in the toolsheds of the old common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Another restrictive device was found by rummaging about in the toolsheds of the old common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Another restrictive device was found by rummaging about in the toolsheds of the old common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Amid the bean vines and tomato plants stand sculptures, shrines, and toolsheds, all on land the gardeners claimed after buildings had been demolished.

    Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 9 2007

  • He built toolsheds, barns, and additions to the house.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

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