How to Use carpentry in a Sentence

carpentry

noun

• When the carpentry is finished, the cabinets will be installed.
• He learned carpentry from his father.
• Thomas, who has a doctorate in physics, is the whiz at carpentry.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
• The trades—like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, welding—are revered.
  — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
• Like most of the fine carpentry in the house, this was done on-site.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2021
• He's done carpentry for the show for more than 20 years.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2020
• Now that the walls up, carpentry is next on the schedule.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• My dad picked up those carpentry skills and passed them on to me.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Apr. 2021
• The man who once did carpentry and odd jobs is unable to work.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
• The work is varied and, as with carpentry, there’s a wide spread in their earnings.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• But as has happened so many times in my life, carpentry came to the rescue.
  — Nick Offerman, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023
• From painting to carpentry, the team tries to never skip this step.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 1 June 2018
• Boys were taught farming and trades such as blacksmithing and carpentry, and girls were taught to spin and weave.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• The carpentry tools simply lay on top of the tool wallets and kits in my larger satchel.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2021
• Morgan has dreams of building a tiny home of his own, putting his carpentry skills to use.
  — oregonlive, 16 May 2021
• The trades range from carpentry to plumbing to brick laying.
  — Tricia L. Nadolny, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
• The lasting pain makes carpentry and knife-making a pipe dream.
  — The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
• Inside the 2011 truck was the man’s carpentry equipment.
  — cleveland, 5 Aug. 2020
• He was scheduled to start a new carpentry job three days after he was killed.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
• About 85 percent of the Habitat house is carpentry, Robey said.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 15 May 2018
• But the old carpentry adage about wisdom is only half the battle.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• Same with Harrison Ford, who, in his pre-movie star days, did some carpentry for Earl and sold him weed, too.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
• The group plotted to kill the 1st lieutenant while meeting at a carpentry store Ahmed owned on Street 40, according to the court records.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, azcentral, 3 Feb. 2020
• But a sauce aged in oak barrels to nod at his woodworking and carpentry skills?
  — Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
• Charles has a carpentry job, and Cynthia takes the children to school, Girl Scouts and travel soccer.
  — Jennifer Egan, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• The mighty timber frame of the roof, a prodigy of 13th-century carpentry, is a complete loss.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2019
• For a week, the girls did electrical work, plumbing and carpentry.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• The 32-year-old now sleeps on a sofa bed in a room adjoining a friend’s carpentry workshop.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 6 June 2021
• When their shelves fell down, consultants tried a bit of carpentry.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• In carpentry, what term means to cut a sloping angle that is not 90 degrees?
  — CNN, 6 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024