tentmaker

How to use tentmaker in a sentence

• And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language.

  Confessions of a Book-Lover | Maurice Francis Egan

• He persecutes the Christians with great vigor, a sport which he combines with the business of a tentmaker.

  Preface to Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw

• Ralph cast a look at Marry, unnoticed by any one else, as much as to say, "The old tentmaker voiced my sentiments."

  Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" | Edith M. Thomas

• Then he went to Corinth, where he stayed for some time preaching and working at his trade of tentmaker.

  The Bible Story | Rev. Newton Marshall Hall

• How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the tentmaker.

  The Wings of the Morning | Louis Tracy