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How to use shoemaker in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Shoemaker means a person who makes shoes. Example: “"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.”

Examples of shoemaker by meaning

nounA person who makes shoes.

  • The diseases of shoemakers receive attention as well as the toxicology of shoepolish.1911 October, W. R. D., “Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects. Second...

More sentences with shoemaker

  • "I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.From the entry abide
  • The shoemaker will fit you up with a fine pair of boots.From the entry fit up
  • Ablɔɖe was initiated and sustained by a shoemaker named Holiday V.2019, Katharine Alexandra Collier Skinner, Wilson Yayoh, editors, Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablɔɖe Safui (the…. From the entry Eʋe
  • The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton.2018 April 1, Cristian Bonetto, Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry veteran
  • He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31. From the entry souter
  • It provides for all contingencies; even if the confessor has to challenge tailors and shoemakers on their commercial doings.1915, William Carew Hazlitt, chapter LXI, in The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall, A.D. 409-1797, volume II…. From the entry construably
  • The son of a shoemaker, Mr.2009 July 28, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Offering Alterations and Fittings, Before the Next Train”, in New York Times. From the entry suitmaking
  • 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
  • When apprentices and lately indentured servants began to “whip the cat,” the shoemakers among them went from house to house making and repairing shoes.1965, Richardson Little Wright, Hawkers and Walkers in Early America, page 100. From the entry whip the cat

Meaning of shoemaker

  1. noun A person who makes shoes.
  2. noun The threadfish.
  3. noun A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.

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Questions about shoemaker in a sentence

How do you use shoemaker in a sentence?
Shoemaker is used as a noun. For example: “"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.”
What is a short sentence with shoemaker?
“The son of a shoemaker, Mr.”
What does shoemaker mean?
Shoemaker means a person who makes shoes.

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