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How to use workmanship in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Workmanship means the skill of an artisan or craftsman. Example: “If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.”

Examples of workmanship by meaning

nounThe quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman.

  • There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN

More sentences with workmanship

  • If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.From the entry defective
  • His subprofessional workmanship led me to decide to never hire him again.From the entry subprofessional
  • Duct tape is a sure sign of amateur workmanship.From the entry amateur
  • Phoenician workmanship used also specific techniques such as ajouré, cloisonné, and champlevé.2019, Hélène Sader, The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia, page 177. From the entry ajouré
  • The main difference between a Cajun microwave and a Caja China has to do with workmanship.2014, Ben Ford, Carolynn Carreño, Taming the Feast: Ben Ford's Field Guide to Adventurous Cooking, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry caja china
  • Aside from the nut heads, the finest of Esther Nusser's workmanship is lavished on her Grandma and Grandpa Dried Apple Head Dolls.1965, Larry Freeman, The American Life Collectors' Annual - Volume 5. From the entry nut head
  • The appearance and design of the stones would suggest that in turning, shaping, and polishing the architects used pulveral processes of workmanship.1921 April 17, L. A. W. Brook, “Correspondence: Stone Circles in Gambia”, in The Geographical Journal, volume LVIII, number 1, London…. From the entry pulveral
  • As a collector and student of certain Greek colonials and a specialist in forgeries I have been familiar with Stelli's workmanship for years.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry colonial
  • The workmanship is sound, but not fine—portions of a visor and a mesail and a chin-piece of the period of Elizabeth have been added to it.1992, Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, page 42. From the entry mesail
  • As a mere piece of workmanship, of finish, the French provincial face—the peasant’s face, even—often has the same kind of interest as a work of art.1908, Edith Wharton, A Motor-Flight Through France, Part II, Chapter I, p. 77. From the entry lumpishness
  • His works show reasonably accurate workmanship, but at times his violin-making production is characterised by models that are too personal, leading to the size of the mensur being too long.2002, Roberto Codazzi, Cinzia Manfredini, editors, La liuteria lombarda del '900, Twentieth century Lombard violin making, Cinisello…. From the entry mensur

Meaning of workmanship

  1. noun The skill of an artisan or craftsman.
  2. noun The quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman.

Full definition of workmanship

Questions about workmanship in a sentence

How do you use workmanship in a sentence?
Workmanship is used as a noun. For example: “If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.”
What is a short sentence with workmanship?
“Duct tape is a sure sign of amateur workmanship.”
What does workmanship mean?
Workmanship means the skill of an artisan or craftsman.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workmanship (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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