car·pen·ter
ˈkär-pən-tər 
ˈkär-pᵊm-tər
: a worker who builds or repairs wooden structures or their structural parts
carpentered; carpentering
ˈkär-pən-t(ə-)riŋ
: to follow the trade of a carpenter
carpentered when he was young
1
: to make by or as if by carpentry
2
: to put together often in a mechanical manner
carpentered many television scripts
Examples of carpenter in a Sentence
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Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2024
What’s their agenda: More good union jobs Schiff has received the endorsement of dozens of labor unions, but few are spending as enthusiastically as the carpenters union, which represents more than half a million workers.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Top donors include developer Joseph W. Kaempfer, entrepreneur Eric Laufer and a carpenter’s union.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
The campaign cited three firefighters’ unions as well as the carpenters and electricians who backed her six years ago.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The trusses were assembled at the workshop for a dry-fit, then disassembled and trucked to Paris, where carpenters put them back together.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
In 1934, carpenters’ union leader J.M. Stubblefield was inside a Carpenters’ Hall telephone booth when he was shot dead.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
For hundreds of years, residents of Valencia, Spain, have celebrated the arrival of spring and paid tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
Conestoga wagons were developed by local carpenters and blacksmiths to carry goods, including farm produce and items bartered from Native Americans, to markets in Philadelphia.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 June 2017
Noun
It's become difficult to find people for vocational jobs, like being a carpenter, driver or tailor.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2024
What’s their agenda: More good union jobs Schiff has received the endorsement of dozens of labor unions, but few are spending as enthusiastically as the carpenters union, which represents more than half a million workers.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Top donors include developer Joseph W. Kaempfer, entrepreneur Eric Laufer and a carpenter’s union.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
The campaign cited three firefighters’ unions as well as the carpenters and electricians who backed her six years ago.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The trusses were assembled at the workshop for a dry-fit, then disassembled and trucked to Paris, where carpenters put them back together.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
In 1934, carpenters’ union leader J.M. Stubblefield was inside a Carpenters’ Hall telephone booth when he was shot dead.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
For hundreds of years, residents of Valencia, Spain, have celebrated the arrival of spring and paid tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
Conestoga wagons were developed by local carpenters and blacksmiths to carry goods, including farm produce and items bartered from Native Americans, to markets in Philadelphia.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
Verb
Noma’s dining room, by contrast, is meticulously carpentered together, from the peaked ceiling to the bare floor, out of sanded oak and Douglas fir.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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“Carpenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carpenter. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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