Carpenter
"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.
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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