Example Sentences

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Metals get softer when they are heated, which is how blacksmiths can form iron into complex shapes by heating it red hot.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

They were doctors, lawyers, politicians, scientists, teachers, politicians, engineers, blacksmiths, generals, soldiers, artists, poets, writers, artisans, farmers, explorers, businesspeople, philosophers, and people from a range of other backgrounds.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

A more carefully worked gouache depicts another forge, where blacksmiths are crafting anchors in a smoldering central kiln.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022

“The temperatures that we can reach with our furnaces will easily double what your blacksmiths can achieve.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor