Example sentences for: plumber

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

  • While his movies are thought of as huge (they are certainly hugely expensive), Kubrick's crews were legendarily tiny--in many cases no more than 15 people--and the director himself would go around arranging the lights in the manner not of a deity but of an electrician or plumber.

  • 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.

  • Friends in Bordeaux swear by a French plumber called Patrick McGarvey and our municipal musical school is overseen by that genial organist--and Frenchman-- Rory Nelson .

  • 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.

  • According to Nash, true wit must meet the following standards: (1) The practitioner must have a quick mind, (2) The witticism must be stated within a very tight framework, and (3) It is characterized by four common rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, definition, and quasi-philosophical propositions, an example being Woody Allen's line, Not only is God dead, but try getting a plumber on Sunday.


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