Example sentences for: plumber

How can you use “plumber” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Chile, gasfiter has been adopted and is used to mean `plumber'; a `watchman' is wachiman or guachiman ; and I was temporarily baffled by a headline referring to an event taking place at the Guay , which turned out to be nothing more than the `Y[MCA]'!

  • Some people (mistakenly) think that the slang term for a commode was named for Thomas Crapper , English plumber.

  • What is one to make of the plumber listed in the yellow pages under gasfitero (`gasfitter') or the restaurant menu that lists aristú (`Irish stew') as the main course and budín for its `pudding,' not to mention Chilean onces (`elevenses'): `afternoon tea or coffee.

  • On This Week , former bimbo-leak plumber George Stephanopoulos argued, "Gennifer Flowers starts out in the Star tabloid, Paula Jones [in] the American Spectator , Monica Lewinsky with Matt Drudge, and now this on the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

  • Among the many treasured examples that have come my way are Mr. Scales , a deep-sea fisherman, Mr. Main , a plumber, Mrs. Bridge , a dentist, Mr. Hewitt , a forester, and Mr. Down , a demolition contractor, who even manages to alliterate.


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