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How to use cooper in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Cooper means a craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs. Example: “A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.”

More sentences with cooper

  • A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.From the entry dowel
  • Cooper said, though he surmised that the arrangements could have been prepared by Handel’s students.2021 March 19, Anthony Tommasini, “Kenneth Cooper, Harpsichordist With Improviser’s Gift, Dies at 79”, in The New York Times, archived…. From the entry harpsichordist
  • Cooper sees his younger self due to the tesseract in Interstellar.2019 June 21, Marc Blancher, Marc Bonner, Colleen Boyle, Martin Butler, Jörg Hartmann, Alexander Hauk, Sophia Hauk, Thomas Hensel, Matthew…. From the entry tesseract
  • Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London. From the entry had
  • Cooper Union now wants a cogen in its landmark Foundation Building.2009 February 25, Alec Appelbaum, “Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power”, in New York Times. From the entry cogen
  • Cooper remains a largely sculptural presence, a western Adonis unafflicted by a personality.2007 May 22, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Gary Cooper”, in New York Times. From the entry unafflicted
  • Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.2000, Philip Lawson, chapter 24, in Muskrat Courage, New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, page 165. From the entry interthread
  • Cooper, smiled and let go one of the worst silent-but-deadlies you could ever imagine.1994, Christopher Milne, “A Very Naughty Boy”, in Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls - Volume 1, page 8. From the entry hummer
  • Interpreters at the village demonstrate crafts such as spinning, coopering (bucketmaking), weaving, and woodworking.1992, Country Home, page 90. From the entry bucketmaking
  • Cooper about employees "riding the clock," that is being clocked in, but not being at work.1984, Decisions - Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. From the entry ride the clock
  • Cooper didn't much care for the way the little beast acted as if she already owned the place.2017, Allie Pleiter, Myra Johnson, Annie Hemby, Harlequin Love Inspired September 2017-Box Set 2 of 2: The Texas Rancher's New Family\Her…. From the entry finagle
  • Cooper is already six hours late delivering the Valentine’s flowers.2014 June 3, Lynne Branard, “Chapter Fifteen”, in The Art of Arranging Flowers, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry Valentine's
  • Cooper has a strong sense of Welsh place; she has also a strong sense of the responsibilities of belonging.1996, Kath Filmer-Davies, “Belonging and the Right of Possession”, in Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry fuzzy
  • Cooper were all but over before half-time.1979, “Rugby Football”, in The Ampleforth Journal, volume 79, page 154. From the entry kicking boots
  • Cooper performed the ceremony in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church.1962 July 15, “Betts-Carpenter”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Ottilie
  • Cooper said quite a few fine catches had come by the Sportsman’s Drive-In with Monroe Romans and O.1960 April 17, “Wetting a Line; With Little Willy”, in Chattanooga Sunday Times, volume XCI, number 125, Chattanooga, Tenn., pages 54 and 59. From the entry stringful
  • Cooper ponderously limped out into the garden.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC. From the entry biscuity
  • The artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper."2013, Guy de Maupassant, The Entire Original Maupassant Short. From the entry wax-candle
  • Whereas in the other Dominicus-cartoons we see a cooper hammering the hoops in place around the barrel, here, in a very similar gesture, the hoops are being cut.2011, Joke Spaans, “Fortune-seekers and Rebels”, in Graphic Satire and Religious Change: The Dutch Republic 1676–1707 (Religious History…. From the entry coop

Meaning of cooper

  1. noun A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
  2. noun A drink of half stout and half porter.
  3. verb To make and repair barrels etc.

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Questions about cooper in a sentence

How do you use cooper in a sentence?
Cooper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.”
What is a short sentence with cooper?
“Cooper ponderously limped out into the garden.”
What does cooper mean?
Cooper means a craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooper (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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