Examples of carpenter in a Sentence
Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
In 1934, carpenters’ union leader J.M. Stubblefield was inside a Carpenters’ Hall telephone booth when he was shot dead.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
For hundreds of years, residents of Valencia, Spain, have celebrated the arrival of spring and paid tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
Conestoga wagons were developed by local carpenters and blacksmiths to carry goods, including farm produce and items bartered from Native Americans, to markets in Philadelphia.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
The trainee hairdressers’ salon was packed, young adults in paper chef toques thronged the halls, and hopeful electricians and carpenters were plentiful.
—Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
Villages also tend to be riddled with caste associations and societal rules on occupations that can keep people locked into jobs as carpenters, barbers, weavers, potters, or sweepers with few other options.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
After Western contact, the architecture evolved to incorporate joinery, with techniques that came out of shipbuilding, Faulkner says, and skilled carpenters from Japan popularized pocket doors and single-wall construction.
—Kristina Linnea Garcia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
Led by Firestone, West and Kennett, the group put together its hypothesis the way that contractors build a house, with masons, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and drywallers each playing distinct but complementary roles.
—Zach St. George, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French carpenter, charpenter, from Latin carpentarius carriage maker, from carpentum carriage, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish carpat chariot, carr vehicle — more at car
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
circa 1815, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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“Carpenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carpenter. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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