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• The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.From the entry exalt
• The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.From the entry dummy up
• There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!From the entry crew
• The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.From the entry round
• The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.From the entry dummy
• He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.From the entry ply
• The carpenter wore a leather apron full of tools.From the entry apron
• The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.From the entry sloppy
• The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.From the entry sawmill
• People who live in 'more carpentered' environments would be more susceptible.2014, Mallory Wober, Psychology in Africa, page 104. From the entry carpentered
• Usually carried by the stagehands, standby carpenters, etc., its use is more precise than Paganinis.2009, Tony Bill, Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set, page 113. From the entry Paganini
• You were probably very interested in picking up and touching bugs such as carpenters and grasshoppers.1992, Heather Hunt, “Gender Equity in Science and its Related Fields”, in Chalkdust & Chewing Gum, St. John’s, N.L.: Jesperson Press…. From the entry unlady-like
• Towards the Last Spike is more carpentered in form than the earlier narratives.1988, Robert G. Collins, E.J. Pratt, page 137. From the entry carpentered
• The joiner and the turner and the housewright had become the cabinet-maker, the chair-maker, and the carpenter.1902, Virginia Robie, Colonial furniture, in The House Beautiful (An Illustrated Magazine of Household Art), October 1902 (vol. 12, number…. From the entry housewright
• I always had a fancy for carpentering, and was handy with tools.1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates. From the entry carpentering
• I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.1900, Henry Lawson, Over the Sliprails. From the entry bach
• Carpenter 'entertained', and in between the spoken portions he and the girls delivered a concertful of light, ballady music.2017, Kurt Ganzl, Victorian Vocalists. From the entry concertful
• Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164. From the entry rowdy
• K'twa, the primary tomol maker, had worked his way up the society to become the most important carpenter in the village.2012, Carl W. McClure, And That's the Truth!: Meaningful Fiction to Stimulate Your Mind and Nurture Your Soul, →ISBN, page 656. From the entry tomol
• Construction-related occupations include blockmakers, potmakers, carpenters, woodhewers, masons, builders and hardware store owners; these activities are all carried out by men.2005, Meine Pieter van Dijk, Roberta Rabellotti, Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries, →ISBN. From the entry woodhewer
• He had not always been a day labourer but learnt carpenting skills from his father who was also a carpenter.1989, Educational and Psychological Interactions - Issues 93-99, page 60. From the entry carpenting
• Rough carpenters & craftsy romantics need not apply.1983 April 9, Elizabeth Regan, “Woodworker (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry craftsy
• By their first anniversary they were saving almost all of Richard's earnings as a union carpenter—eighty to ninety dollars a week.1976, Anthony Scaduto, Scapegoat: The Lonesome Death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry thrifty
• What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13. From the entry hedger
• John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn.1914, Alfred Johnson, History and genealogy of one line of descent from Captain Edward Johnson: together with his English ancestry…. From the entry housewright
• Carpenter first, unless I am mistaken, introduced the term ‘unconscious cerebration’, which has since then been a popular phrase of explanation.1902, William James, “Lecture IX: Conversion”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cerebration
• My grand pa was the carpenter on his ship, but had a few years before swallowed the anchor and stepped on land to repair boats.2008, Scott Telek, The Ghost Ship, page 184. From the entry swallow the anchor
• Sixteen years after he started Lumpen in Champaign, Marszewski is supporting his empire by carpentering, designing Web sites, and working at his mother's Bridgeport bar.2007 January 26, Deanna Isaacs, “Have Your Rebellion and Deduct It Too”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry carpentering
• On the Costa, a street full of gilders, carpenters, carvers, and stucco experts, their status as Inglesi—bourgeois as well as fine artists—set them apart.1996, Carolyn Burke, “Anglo-Florence (1907–10)”, in Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry gilder
• Some worker confréries, such as those of the carpenters, hatmakers, polishers, and secondhand clothes dealers, tried to obtain formal legitimation in the eighteenth century.1996, Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775, page 269. From the entry confrerie
• Then there are the amateur carpenters.1977 June 26, Chris Peck, “Purple thumbs tell of tool machines”, in Times-News, 72nd year, number 252, Twin Falls, Ida., page 5, column 1. From the entry pollex
• It is sort of like paying a carpenter for the downstrike of his hammer and saying the upstroke is on his on time.1965, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, page 185. From the entry downstrike
• The carpenter had disappeared, leaving half-finished not one but three images, as they are still today, identified as Krishna, Balarama and their sistier Subhadra.1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 76. From the entry Krishna
• The carpenter had disappeared, leaving half-finished not one but three images, as they are still today, identified as Krishna, Balarama and their sister Subhadra.1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 76. From the entry Balarama
• But the ship's carpenter had cut his hand open on a ravehook while cleaning out some old caulking on the fo'c'sle, and Cat stayed aloft to attend him.2014, Laura London, The Windflower. From the entry ravehook
• Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.2003, Chuck Stewart, “Biographical Sketches”, in Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues), Santa Barbara…. From the entry uranian
• Regular readers of humorist Dave Barry's column will recognize Skip as the ultracapable "painter, carpenter, roofer and lobsterperson" who is frequently called upon to repair Barry's house.1997, CIO, Dec 15, 1997–Jan 1, 1998, volume 11, number 6. From the entry lobsterperson
• Home-made scooters could be special affairs made in carpenters' shops, or they could be made by boys with two rough-hewn pieces of wood put together with ball-races for the wheels.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 128. From the entry ballrace

Meaning of carpenter

1. noun A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
2. noun A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
3. noun A two-wheeled carriage.

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How do you use carpenter in a sentence?

Carpenter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.”

What is a short sentence with carpenter?

“Then there are the amateur carpenters.”

What does carpenter mean?

Carpenter means a person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.