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How to use blacksmith in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Blacksmith means a person who forges iron. Example: “The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.”

Examples of blacksmith by meaning

nounA person who forges iron.

  • Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden

More sentences with blacksmith

  • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.From the entry forged
  • The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.From the entry metalwork
  • He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.From the entry burn
  • The karls were ordinary folk like farmers, craftsmen, blacksmiths and hunters.2016, Louise Spilsbury, “Powerful Kings and Suffering Slaves”, in The Vikings: Dig Up the Secrets of the Dead (History Hunters), Oxford…. From the entry karl
  • The blacksmith was long gone, his ironwork aglitter like a gate to heaven.2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 89. From the entry aglitter
  • If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage" near the anvil.2005, Mike McCarthy, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Texas A&M University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry swage
  • The only place I ever seriously lagged was at the blacksmith shop.1998 January 28, Spatch [username], “Re: *Please Read*”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games (Usenet). From the entry lagfest
  • Twice in her thirty-year career she held office in the blacksmiths' guild.1997, Vicki León, Uppity Women of Medieval Times, Conari Press, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry female
  • It seems evident that by the beginning of the 10th century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron.1977 Oct, Scientific American, 127 1. From the entry steel
  • A simple rap on the forehead with a fist hard as iron and their Fishy-Fish blacksmith would down for the count.2015, Lee Bond, Dark Iron King I: Thy King's Will Be Done. From the entry hard as iron
  • During World War II, many women worked as blacksmiths in the shipbuilding industry and found they liked the challenging, independent work.1979, Muriel Lederer, Blue-collar jobs for women, page 59. From the entry woman
  • Just a year ago, I'd had a normal life as a blacksmith in Seattle, one of the coolest cities on the planet.2013, J. A. Pitts, Forged in Fire, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry Ren faire
  • At the start of the century, widows in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston were printers, shoemakers, engravers, and silversmiths, and sometimes blacksmiths, shipbuilders, or gunwrights.1999, S. J. Kleinberg, Women in the United States, 1830-1945, page 16. From the entry gunwright
  • The laws had yet to catch up to this new world where blacksmiths could put out steam-driven mechanicals and the new industry raised country merchants to the big houses.2015, Margaret McGaffey Fisk, Safe Haven: The Steamship Chronicles, →ISBN. From the entry mechanical
  • Arabic meter—so Arabic tradition claims—sprang from the rhythm of bodily motions, such as the pendular beating of the blacksmith and the trot of the horse and the camel.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 113. From the entry pendular
  • But I wasn't good medicine for myself after I left them, he admitted, remembering the dreary years of failure at farming and trading, as blacksmith and deck hand and bullwhacker.1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 33. From the entry deckhand

Meaning of blacksmith

  1. noun A person who forges iron.
  2. noun A person who shoes horses.
  3. noun A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).

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Questions about blacksmith in a sentence

How do you use blacksmith in a sentence?
Blacksmith is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.”
What is a short sentence with blacksmith?
“He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.”
What does blacksmith mean?
Blacksmith means a person who forges iron.

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