How to Use carpenter in a Sentence

carpenter

noun

• The coat rack by the front door is made of carpenter rulers.
  — Chicago Tribune, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2024
• This can put the carpenter at risk of asthma, Schenck said.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2022
• At the time, the 30-year-old Ford was also working as a carpenter part-time to help make ends meet.
  — Brittany Natale, Country Living, 12 July 2023
• Michael Waters, 36, an artist and carpenter, had two bikes stolen from the backyard of his house.
  — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
• The story centers around a 54-year-old carpenter named Tom Lowe who is down on his luck.
  — Zahir Janmohamed, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• He may have been robbed of cash earned at his other jobs as a carpenter and handyman.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2022
• This is going to require an army of carpenters and plumbers.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker.
  — Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• If the lock is not well secured, work with a locksmith and/or carpenter to make sure the door closes fully.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• In response, the carpenter tells him a story: One by one, three men come upon a man who has been robbed and beaten.
  — Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022
• The long-time carpenter and designer used his skills to transform their space.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Is there a carpenter in the family who needs more room, perhaps?
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 1 Dec. 2023
• What is the most common size of circular saw used by carpenters?
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
• This is not the first time the carpenter, who is best known for his time as the host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, has showed some skin on social media.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
• As for the rest of the furniture, much of it was made by a local carpenter, while her husband also helped with the construction of the space.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• The carpenter, Jesus, then tells the lawyer to follow that example.
  — Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022
• The carpenter and former Navy combat medic tossed and turned in bed, kept awake by pain where his lower leg was supposed to be.
  — Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2022
• Dan serves as the project manager; Ben is a carpenter; Liam is the painter, and Malik handles demo.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• Evan Hall and his twin brother Colin are local carpenters who were hired to do a job at arguably the most famous home in Louisville.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 21 Apr. 2023
• His father was a carpenter and his mother was a seamstress.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• On the first page of Pinocchio, the block of wood turns up in the workshop of an old carpenter known in older translations as Mr. Cherry, because of his red nose.
  — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Ramirez, who had his carpenter’s pencil tucked behind one ear, had brought his father two Miller Lite beers and set them atop his gravesite in honor of the day.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• This year, Wiener and the carpenters expanded support for the labor changes to add more construction unions.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The 18th-century pad spans six floors and was designed by master carpenter John Phillips.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• The East Bay resident had worked for 18 years as a carpenter in the district’s buildings and grounds department, the statement said.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022
• His team of four include a yoga teacher, an artist, a carpenter and a gardener, people who can drop the tools of their trade to dash out on a call.
  — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• His father, Jose Rojas, a carpenter and fisherman, was the grandson of a slave.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• Like a hammer, accounting rules don’t think, and like a good carpenter, good managers do.
  — Readers, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
• Goodwin’s grandfather was chief carpenter for Shiloh House and her father, the last of 15 children, ran around the mansion as a child while his dad helped build it.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
• John, a carpenter, looked just like his father—with a gentle, open face and the strong, scrappy build of a former high-school state wrestling champion.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024