Example Sentences
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The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now, since you have coopered me up so nicely, if you will let me have some water and my clothes, I will make my toilet as far as I can.”
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by Overend, William Heysham
The mills will have to buy out of the corporation drive this year, seeing that we’re coopered on our contract.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
When the boxes were filled and sealed, they were strongly coopered, by adding four thin laths of strong wood.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
