Example Sentences

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One fan I spoke to, Carmelo Hernandez, dedicates hours to handcrafting ceramic dinosaur sculptures.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

The tiny team has been handcrafting some of the state’s most beautiful ceramic goods for the past 50 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Smooth-backed and yellow-billed, with cheerful red heads, they’re clustered in a row along a workbench, observing as the shop’s occupants take a break after a long morning of handcrafting wooden toys.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2023

He has not seen any of the more than a dozen sequels that were made, viewing them as another example of greed tainting the creative process in animation by mass-producing instead of handcrafting singular works.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2022

So George took his time, carefully and meticulously handcrafting a single sculling shell from Norwegian pine and mahogany.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown