carpentering
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of carpentering
Example Sentences
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He was a dab hand at carpentering, doctoring, shipbuilding and grape growing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022
His upper body is hefty, his hands coarse from years of carpentering.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2020
For 23 years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commoners now work four hours a day five days a week, scrubbing, carpentering, washing dishes, farming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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