Examples of smithy in a Sentence
They tore down the old smithy behind the general store.
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The sound of the hammer rings out from the blacksmith shop where the smithy offers demonstrations, usually on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
The smithy isn’t the first significant find unearthed at Wittenham Clumps.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
But Washington’s fiction is much less concerned with the heartache and devastation commonly caused by such departures and much more obsessed with how absence and exodus create a smithy in which new selves can be forged.
—Ernesto Mestre-Reed, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
As an apologist, Wright suggests, less persuasively, that the Jewish stories have a special virtue for having been forged in the smithy of suffering.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
Things to Do in Gretna, Louisiana Gretna Green Blacksmith Shop This old-timey blacksmith shop is based on a historic Scottish smithy of the same name located in Gretna Green, Scotland.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus promised to forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race; less Parnassian than Dedalus but just as angry as Joyce, O’Toole tells the story of how his race, at last breaking the fetters of religion and superstition, created its own conscience.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
There was nothing smithish about the old smithy.
—Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Actually, the story’s already pretty strange by the time our medieval heroine, a girl with a bird — specifically, and significantly, a curlew — on her shoulder and a smithy’s tools in hand, mysteriously appears in our present-day heroine’s house.
—Washington Post, 4 May 2022
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
The smithy isn’t the first significant find unearthed at Wittenham Clumps.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
But Washington’s fiction is much less concerned with the heartache and devastation commonly caused by such departures and much more obsessed with how absence and exodus create a smithy in which new selves can be forged.
—Ernesto Mestre-Reed, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
As an apologist, Wright suggests, less persuasively, that the Jewish stories have a special virtue for having been forged in the smithy of suffering.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
Things to Do in Gretna, Louisiana Gretna Green Blacksmith Shop This old-timey blacksmith shop is based on a historic Scottish smithy of the same name located in Gretna Green, Scotland.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus promised to forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race; less Parnassian than Dedalus but just as angry as Joyce, O’Toole tells the story of how his race, at last breaking the fetters of religion and superstition, created its own conscience.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
There was nothing smithish about the old smithy.
—Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Actually, the story’s already pretty strange by the time our medieval heroine, a girl with a bird — specifically, and significantly, a curlew — on her shoulder and a smithy’s tools in hand, mysteriously appears in our present-day heroine’s house.
—Washington Post, 4 May 2022
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“Smithy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smithy. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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