How to Use smith in a Sentence

smith

noun
  • Ancient smiths developed the techniques needed to make metal tools.
  • Smith is the biggest of the competitors, with great arm strength.
    Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 18 May 2017
  • Gränsfors Bruk axe heads are stamped with the initials of the smith who forged them.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
  • Folders are the true test of a smith’s skill as a machinist and designer.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
  • After forging a sword, a smith inscribes their signature along the tang.
    Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The smith offers to build the gods a wall in a seemingly impossible amount of time.
    Lidia Yuknavitch, New York Times, 15 May 2017
  • Smith, 25, had missed several weeks because of a forearm strain.
    Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
  • Japanese smiths have made an unfathomable number of swords and fittings.
    Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
  • In the armed forces tournament, eight members redeploy to the forge and go head-to-head against one other smith in a five-hour battle.
    Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • And those shopkeepers and smiths had been defeated, dismissed, and sent scurrying to the valley of misery.
    Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • These are raw workhorse denim handmade by jeans smiths from vintage sewing machines in North Carolina.
    Maverick Li, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Spearheads were expensive, crafted by Icelandic smiths using iron smelted from deposits in bogs.
    Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Water service has not been interrupted so far as the transition is already underway, Stutz smith said.
    Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2019
  • Japanese smiths forging blades for the samurai developed a masterful technique to create light, deadly sharp blades.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Needing help, Din ends up turning to a group of Anzellan droid smiths, who inform him that the only way to get his friend back is to track down a specific part.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In Arizona, that state's attorney general has accused smith of legally changing his name to hide his past in 2021.
    Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Every custom smith either began by imitating the Model 3 or currently does and calls it by another name.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The weapon sports an octagonal bronze hilt that was cast over the blade, which few smiths were skilled enough to make at the time, according to Live Science’s Laura Geggel.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • From weavers to gold smiths, the artisans that filled Europe with museum-quality handicrafts have largely disappeared, their skills outsource to machines.
    Nicola Leigh Stewart, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to the ballet company, other tenants include a photographer; a videographer; a painter; a metal smith; and a jeweler.
    Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2017
  • In order to convince the great elven smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) to forge the titular rings of power with him, Sauron disguises himself as an elf-like mystic.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 July 2024
  • Carter’s company is also working on developing more varieties of PPO-free apples, including granny smith, Fuji and gala.
    Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
  • For the performance, casebolt and smith (the dance duo of Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith) recounted the myth first in entertaining patter, while a video behind the stage projected classic paintings of the characters.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • An accomplished word smith and producer, the Mississippi native is still considered by many to be an underrated underground act, having yet to hit that major crossover status like many of his peers in this new age of Rap and Hip Hop.
    Marco Torres, Houston Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Looking Ahead Ellis envisions expanding the collection and introducing educational resources for enthusiasts and aspiring smiths.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025

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