With the house nothing more than a plywood platform, the carpenter and I got numbed fingers studying a blueprint flapping in the January wind.

Painted a whitish tan, it sits on a large plywood platform, an uncomfortable ghostly presence.

Facing them from a foot-high plywood platform was a black leather office chair.

Macklin tapped his gavel on the plywood platform below his chair.

Build a plywood platform at one end of the room, cover it with a carpet and pile it with floor cushions.

Mr. Lasseter climbed into a makeshift seat propped up on a plywood platform and hunkered down, ready for a test run.

He stood with his hands clasped in front of him before a plywood platform lined with a phalanx of television cameras.

Each plywood platform will be mounted astride two boats and, in addition to the percussionist, will have an oarsperson onboard to keep the stage steady.

The latter consists of a plywood platform on which, just before the show opened, the artist placed 12 household brooms upright but unsupported, brush-end down.

Sloping plywood platforms straighten out the triangular floor into a more respectable rectangle.