How to use "woods" in a sentence

Alice got up angrily and walked away from the table into the woods.

He told me about the gardens and the flowers in the woods

Beyond the rose-garden, the smooth grass stretched to the woods.

We set off together across the lawns to the woods

We climbed the grass bank above the lawns and walked down into the woods

We came to a clearing in the woods

The woods came right down to the shore

At the edge of the woods was a low stone building, a cottage or a boat-house

He went up past the cottage and on to a path through the woods

Then I called Jasper and we went together into the woods.

I called Jasper and we went for a walk through the woods

I could not see the woods

The fog was beginning to clear and I could see the woods again

I began to walk along the path through the woods

I left him and walked towards the path through the woods

We did not walk in the woods or go down to the sea

Then, in my dream, I was alone in the woods near Manderley

The gardens had gone and the dark woods came up to the walls of the house.

A narrow and forbidding track led into the woods, recently plowed but still treacherous

The scoutmaster had parked the expedition's minibus on a lay-by about a mile and a half into the woods, and he and his assistant and the kids had walked in another half-mile before they encountered Larry Bollinger

'Yes, I think there was a shot somewhere in the woods

'Yes, but did you hear any other shot - one down in the woods, perhaps?'

'It's strange,' I said, 'that everyone says the shot came from the woods.'

'One often hears shots in the woods

We - we often met in the woods afterwards.'

So when I heard a shot in the woods, I...'

'A shot in the woods?' asked Inspector Slack.

For Anne's sake.' He paused, then said, 'What are you doing in the woods, Vicar?' I didn't know what to say.

'Did you see anyone go by the path into the woods that afternoon?' I asked

'But first, the vicar and I have a little job to do.' So we said goodbye to Miss Marple and walked back to the woods.

'Going into the woods with a suitcase.'

Why would she take a suitcase into the woods at twelve o'clock at night? I don't expect it has anything to do with the murder

She was seen walking into the woods, and that path goes only to Old Hall, and to this barrow.'

'Because I was in the woods when I suddenly thought about it.'

So he told the girl to put on these old clothes and go and hide the suitcase in the woods

She was sitting there and saying very loudly that she had never taken a suitcase to the woods.

Then I thought of something, and I took from my pocket the shiny brown stone I had found in the woods

'What about the shot heard in the woods?' I asked

And remember, Vicar that you met Mr Redding carrying a large stone in that same place in the woods where you found the picric acid later.'

She had at last told the police that she had taken the suitcase to the woods, but had thought she was protecting Dr Stone's archaeological discoveries from his enemies.

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey Road, Woking, saw a star fall from the sky into the woods to the north-west

At that moment a bright green light lit up the road around me and showed the distant woods to the north

The view opened out until, on one side, it reached to the houses around Woking Station, and on the other, to the burnt woods of Byfleet

'It's no kindness to your wife,' he said, 'for you to get killed.' In the end I agreed to go north with him under cover of the woods

We reached the woods at the foot of the hill and moved through these towards the road

'Do you know what's over there?' I said, pointing towards the woods that hid the Martians.

Even the afternoon papers had nothing to tell apart from the movement of soldiers around the common, and the burning of the woods between Woking and Weybridge