Carpenter

//ˈkɑː.pən.tə//

"Carpenter" in a Sentence (13 examples)

After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.

Abraham Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade.

A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.

My grandfather is a carpenter.

I have three brothers; one is pilot, another a diplomat and the other a carpenter.

I'm a poor carpenter.

It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.

He is a carpenter by trade.

He is a good carpenter.

The carpenter is measuring the floor.

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The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.

Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.

Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.

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