How to Use cooper in a Sentence
cooper
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In Modena, a cooper knocks on oak to hear if the barrel will sing.
—Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
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The finds included ceramic pieces, glass bottles and clay tobacco pipes, plus a cooper's adze, barrel heads and staves.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Several of the houses have a special person on staff just for the barrels, a cooper who manufactures and replaces the slats that have worn out.
—Kyle Lucia Wu, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
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The proper method to test brake fluid is with an electronic tester that measures moisture or PH dip-strips that measure moisture and cooper levels.
—Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
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Between courses, a master cooper treated us to a fire-barreling demonstration, unleashing tall jets of flame that shot to the ceiling and filled the air with the aroma of charred oak.
—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
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Below, in the grainy light of still houses and steadings, maltsters, coopers, and coppersmiths sustain tradition, keeping the stories and glories of single malt whisky alive.
—Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2025
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Floor maltings still running the traditional way, coopers making barrels on site, a 30-year vertical tasting conducted without theatrics.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
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