Example sentences for: workmen

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

  • When he worked on commissions all over Europe, he was said to prefer the company of his fellow workmen to that of the wealthy patrons who had hired him.

  • This is because there is tremendous variation in the quality of the materials used and the skills of the workmen involved.

  • It was discovered by workmen on the northern edge of the site in a tiny clay walled chamber.

  • And one is certain that Kenneth Rexroth, in his American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Herder and Herder, N.Y., 1971) did not intend to hint at closet biographical matter when, in Chapter I, he wrote that “Whitman's poems are full of men doing things together,” or, later in the same chapter, when he referred to “Whitman's joyous workmen swinging their tools in the open air.”

  • One limestone mogote just west of town was painted by workmen dangling on ropes in the 1960s with a Mural de la Prehistoria (Mural of Prehistory) — commissioned by Castro himself — that is 120 meters (370 feet) high and 180 meters (550 feet) long.


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