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How to use tanner in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Tanner means a person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. Example: “Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.”

Examples of tanner by meaning

nounA person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.

  • Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.2023 June 17, “New bronze age: fake tan is back, and it won’t turn you orange”, in The Guardian

nounA former British coin worth six old pence.

  • They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469

nounAny of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.

  • The new plant is assumed to result in additions to the resident fleet during the tanner and dungeness crab seasons and function as a port of call for an increased number of trollers, resulting in more local seafood processing.1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale
  • There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7
  • We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge, →ISBN

More sentences with tanner

  • There are also observations in the Talmud that, e.g., tanners stink.2011 May 31, Yisroel Markov, “Leftwing anti-semitism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry tahor
  • Tanner also elected to stick with his B&B FUSION catback rather than the raunchier APS piece.2011 July 5, Cam Benty, Chevy LS Engine Buildups: Covers LS1 through LS9 Models, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry catback
  • Tanner emerged, too, and sauntered to my side.2018, Gena Showalter, Playing with Fire. From the entry tightie whities
  • He captured the contrast between the tanners’ workshops and shanties flanking the Dâmbovița and the imposing public buildings recently erected nearby.2013, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, “Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers”, in Micheline Nilsen…. From the entry Dâmbovița
  • Tanner, the Altamaha River monster has a much longer history.2006, Kelly Milner Halls, Rick Spears, Roxyanne Young, Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May Or May Not Exist, Millbrook…. From the entry Altamaha-ha
  • There were some leather-workers, as 4 or 5 curriers or tanners, 2 kissers, 6 or 7 saddlers or fusters.1951, Eilert Ekwall, Two early London subsidy rolls, page 86. From the entry fuster
  • "You don't mean tanners by any chance?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry exchequer
  • Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement, 782/1. From the entry lord
  • The class in fencing and broadswordsmanship draws upon the tanner.1907, Atlanta Georgian, Boot and Shoe Recorder, Volume 50, Chilton Company, page 153. From the entry broadswordsmanship
  • If the skins were bought from the butcher or fellmonger by a tawyer or whittawyer, rather than a tanner, the process used was different.2018 July 30, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Leatherwork and Tanning, Pen and Sword, →ISBN. From the entry tawyer
  • The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.2008, Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Penguin Canada, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry litster
  • Moreover, their niche was both lucrative and stable, for all the pelterers and most of the tanners were residents of the juratorial group in St.1955, Ellen Wedemeyer Moore, The Fairs of Medieval England: An Introductory Study, pages 269 and 277. From the entry juratorial
  • Said to have been a tanner.1917, “Index”, in Alexander Gordon, editor, Freedom After Ejection: A Review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity…. From the entry thereabout
  • All of the tanners from whom we buy the stock contend that this is the best indication that all the animal fats have not been extracted from the leather.1920, The Leather Manufacturer, volumes 31-32, page 409. From the entry spew

Meaning of tanner

  1. noun A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
  2. noun A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
  3. noun A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.

Full definition of tanner

Questions about tanner in a sentence

How do you use tanner in a sentence?
Tanner is used as a noun. For example: “Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.”
What is a short sentence with tanner?
“Said to have been a tanner.”
What does tanner mean?
Tanner means a person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

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