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How to use doer in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Doer means someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. Example: “By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.”

Examples of doer by meaning

nounSomeone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

  • a doer of good
  • By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 205
  • Thinkers were out, doers were in.2008 March 25, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian

More sentences with doer

  • You left your lordness, your person doer of justice, maker of order.2015, Linda O'Brien-Rothe, Songs that Make the Road Dance. From the entry lordness
  • That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer.1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories. From the entry beer
  • Are you a doer or a relaxer?2014, Rusty Gregory, Alan Chasen, Living Wheat-Free For Dummies, page 172. From the entry relaxer
  • Basically there are two kinds of Christians, the tooters and the rooters - the talkers and the doers.1992, Betty Malz, Morning Jam Sessions, page 185. From the entry rooter
  • There's two kinds of people—the doers and the happeners.1984, Rex Burns, Strip Search: A Gabe Wager Mystery, page 23. From the entry happener
  • I'm a communicator, not a doer.2011 October 29, David Mitchell, “I bet David Cameron wishes he'd chosen me instead of Mary Portas”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry infra dig
  • If you see smtg. wrong is done and you can't influence those wrong doers, than you have to leave this place immediately.1992 June 13, Ekrem Saban, “Islam and tolerance for other religions”, in soc.religion.islam (Usenet). From the entry smtg
  • "Come out, Noongah, you evil doer!1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 29, column 2. From the entry evildoer
  • They were perceivers, willers, and doers.1914, Jack London, chapter 3, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore. From the entry willer
  • How do we, who have been the doers, step back and learn to accept or even ask for help of these who are new to caregiving?2022, Dianne G. Poppert, Beyond Living Life Underneath: Reflections and Considerations. From the entry don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
  • I believe that in this way most temerarious deeds are done; the doer has become insensible to danger, and his imagination is clouded with some engrossing purpose.1910, John Buchan, “A Great Peril and A Great Salvation”, in Prester John, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, →OCLC, page 361. From the entry temerarious

Meaning of doer

  1. noun Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

Full definition of doer

Questions about doer in a sentence

How do you use doer in a sentence?
Doer is used as a noun. For example: “By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.”
What is a short sentence with doer?
“a doer of good”
What does doer mean?
Doer means someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doer (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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