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How to use workman in a sentence

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He was a good and industrious workman in the shop, but both he and his wife were grossly intemperate at home.
I just cringe at the very sight of cheap painting tools mainly because the old saying that a bad workman always blames his tools is wrong!
Just because a bad workman always blames his tools doesn't mean blaming one's tools is a sign of being a bad workman.
It is believed the power cut was caused when a workman accidentally cut through an underground cable.
The employer, notionally, gives the workman an unshaped plank of wood, and receives in return a plank that has been sawn and nailed.
But where does the skilled workman or the skilled addressee stand in the spectrum?
If there is a bad set of specifications and a bad set of materials no good workman can fix the problem, because it is intrinsically defective.
A skilled workman, Paddy was always working with his hands at home or with the neighbours.
I have no idea what he would have made of his pupil, but he's a really good workman with a delicate sense of lyricism.
Why can you not attribute to the skilled workman the trade or professional equivalent of Halsbury's Laws of England?
Before Christmas, workman burst a water main in the street with a mechanical digger causing calamitous flooding.
A workman from Poland is recovering after a forklift truck went over his foot.
The alley outside their workplace was transformed into a canal when an old fire hydrant fractured as it was being moved by a workman.
A workman takes a hank in his hand and throws it into an opening in the lining case surrounding the scutching drum.
Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman and of those who might be disposed to employ him.
He had undergone a kind of religious conversion to the people's cause after hearing a workman in a tea-house tell the grim story of his life.
He had grubby trousers, work boots and a lumberjack shirt so he looked just like a workman.
It is the second time the workman has stared death in the face after striking a live cable with a shovel in Bradford on Avon eight years ago.
A workman below was using a pneumatic drill to break up some concrete which had already been laid.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In these cases an industrious workman may obtain as much as one picul in a week.
Out of the earnings I have withheld my wages as a workman in the mine last winter, and a moderate charge for caretaking since.
But the workman got out of the cattle plague, only to get into worse trouble from the buffalo.
He had lost his parents, and was quite by himself, and a first-rate workman.
Look at this little netsuke, or inro, or sword-guard, and follow the workman as you admire each detail of the execution.
It is very significant that we never find one where the workman used both flint and argillite.
Each workman dips his ladle only three times, and empties its contents into the cuvette.
A book full of the energetics of a master workman is just what every young man cares for.
His first visit to the Morton apartment that day had been in the guise of a workman.
Broadcloth is wiser, just as a skilled workman is wiser than a hod carrier.
Yet he was a good workman, and when he returned to ilkley he was readily engaged by the farmers to plough, mow, and reap for them.
Ah, you think to incommode me, because you met me in my dress as a workman?
And what workman will throw away a sharp tool, because it may cut his fingers?
The workman proceeds in this way, till he has melted enough of metal to form a loupe.
By shifting the bolt into the centre nearest the pump-rod, the mechanical advantage of the workman may be doubled.
I then related for the doctor my conversation with the workman who asked me about women.
The work order is the written instruction of the foreman to the workman to do certain work.
At this time a former workman of my younger brother Karl, a man named Strohhofer, commenced a printery.
A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour.
You must know that in Nippon beauty is worship by the humblest workman.
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