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How to use finder in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Finder means one who finds or discovers something; a discoverer. Example: “Finders keepers, losers weepers.”

Examples of finder by meaning

nounOne who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

  • Finders keepers, losers weepers.
  • The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.2012, Alan R. Romero, Property Law For Dummies, page 229

nounA device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.

  • Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

More sentences with finder

  • The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.From the entry vein
  • The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.From the entry get
  • The finder was patriotic enough to accept a smaller bid from Dunedin Museum.1999, The Bulletin, page 126. From the entry Rothschildren
  • I tried to duck under the ball, but it was definitely an ugly finder.1989 August 12, Mitch Williams, quotee, “There's never a dull moment with the Cubs' 'Wild Thing'”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune. From the entry ugly finder
  • Already I seen one of the youngfolks out here carryin’ one of them electric treasure finders.1976, Ted C. Williams, The Reservation, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry youngfolks
  • There is talk of a lawsuit between owners of dredge and finder as to rights of property in the egg.1999, The Bulletin, page 126. From the entry Rothschildren
  • The lucky finder of the pecan, or bean, or ring, which was hidden within was henceforth to be favored by fortune.1901, “Twelfth Night or King's Cake. Gateau du Roi.”, in The Picayune's Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune…. From the entry king cake
  • Nonetheless, searchers who had spent years obsessing about the treasure felt the finder owed them answers — if not the location, then surely a couple of clues.2025 March 27, Benjamin Wallace, “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dot connector
  • When neither Fenn nor the finder provided any, the tribe of dot connectors and pattern recognizers began subjecting the scant photographic documentation of the discovery to relentless analysis.2025 March 27, Benjamin Wallace, “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dot connector

Meaning of finder

  1. noun One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
  2. noun A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
  3. noun A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.

Full definition of finder

Questions about finder in a sentence

How do you use finder in a sentence?
Finder is used as a noun. For example: “Finders keepers, losers weepers.”
What is a short sentence with finder?
“Finders keepers, losers weepers.”
What does finder mean?
Finder means one who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finder (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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