Example sentences for: shoemaker

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

  • La horma [not “herma”] de su zapato does not mean `encountering the shoestring,' since horma means `shoemaker's last,' that is, the wooden form on which shoemakers build--or used to build--shoes.

  • Not according to Nancy Shoemaker, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire.

  • Besides, Shoemaker writes, Europeans at the time usually described Indians not as red but as "tawny."

  • The assistant shoemaker is another of Malamud's weirdly insistent, lonely souls--impelled, who knows why, to devote himself to a hopeless love; still wincing from the horrors of Europe, which he has not entirely escaped; inarticulate, yet bursting with passion, if only his boss, the master shoemaker, will deign to listen.

  • Here is another attempt at explanation: in a culture that has deserted basic agriculture for industry, where professions such as shoemaker and blacksmith and cooper have all but disappeared, many people never learn the connections between mankind and nature, or the crafts of working with basic materials.


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