Example sentences for: workmen

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

  • Six thousand years ago a village, evidently thriving, occupied this farmland, but traces of habitation came to light only in the 1950s, when workmen were digging the foundations for a new factory.

  • 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 of the workmen asked me.

  • 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.

  • 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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