Example Sentences

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“Let it die by itself, rather than by the chain saw,” said John Arrison, an electrical contractor who is also a town selectman, justice of the peace and weigher of coal.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a notable report to his papers, Cowles, a careful weigher of facts and forces, summed up his impressions of "The U.S. and the World Today."

From Time Magazine Archive

Parting from Heqet inside the gate, Ranofer hurried into the shop to begin his first task, that of helping the weigher and the scribe issue each man’s portion of gold.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The charette- man will come by with an oxcart; then we will all load; then the charette-man will take the cane to the weigher, at the central.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple