CARPENTER in a Sentence
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73 example sentences for CARPENTER, such as:
1. He has the skill to be a carpenter.
2. The carpenters began to floor the room.
3. I have a complete set of carpenter's tools.
4. Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
5. The carpenter held the piece of wood in a vise.
2. The carpenters began to floor the room.
3. I have a complete set of carpenter's tools.
4. Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
5. The carpenter held the piece of wood in a vise.
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Meanings and Examples of CARPENTER
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carpenter
n. a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
v. work as a carpenter
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
2 In the quiet of the halt, Carol could hear a horse kicking his stall, a carpenter shingling a roof.
3 It was larger than the carpenter shop beside it, but not so well built.
4 She read all she could find regarding staging, she bought paint and light wood; she borrowed furniture and drapes unscrupulously; she made Kennicott turn carpenter.
5 As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided.
6 The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
7 This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
8 This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
9 But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
10 A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole: the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway files it smaller.
11 An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion.
12 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
13 A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears.
14 Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent and without respect in all.
15 Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
Example Sentence:
1 Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
2 A fair employer, when arranging for the pay of a carpenter, does not try to beat him down.
3 I have a complete set of carpenter's tools.
4 A carpenter's tools include saws, hammers, and screw - drivers.
5 The carpenter held the piece of wood in a vise.
6 He has the skill to be a carpenter.
7 The carpenter shut the workshop door, sliding the heavy metal bolt into place.
8 Isaac, a 26-year-old carpenter, is working there again, now for the third time, but he knows how unstable his employment is.
9 As a master craftsman, the carpenter prided himself on not doing slipshod work.
10 A wright was a jack-of-all-trades, usually trained as a carpenter, craftsman, or builder.
11 The carpenter should have used his tape measure the room before any other jobs.
12 The carpenters began to floor the room.
13 Our gardener is a jack of all trades, he can do carpentering, decorating, a bit of plumbing, and so on.