Example sentences for: workman

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

  • And I accept that there is a meaningful difference between Rick Berke and the guy who files workman's comp forms.

  • Donald Macintosh's anecdote about the Scottish workman whose conversation baffles the visiting Frenchwoman [XXII,2] makes the unwarranted assumption that the common speech of the people of the Scottish Lowlands is an English dialect.

  • I have seen a calendar (Workman Publishing Co., New York) which defined it as “personal magnetism and charm,” and said, “Given today's extensive TV coverage, political candidates need duende if they hope to be accepted by the public.”

  • Just inside the entrance is a remarkable sculpture (1673) in black stone of Vishnu as Narsimha, the man-lion, disembowelling the demon Haranyakashipu with the relish of a workman opening his lunchbox.

  • When it was revealed a while back that Franklin Roosevelt had installed listening devices in the Oval Office, a workman from those days told reporters how he'd drilled the necessary holes in the floor under FDR's desk, adding, in a phrase that was reported without comment, that those holes were "probably still there."


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