How to Use toolmaker in a Sentence

toolmaker

noun

• The company is a leading toolmaker.
• Starmer was born in 1962 in south London to a nurse and a toolmaker.
  — Olivia Konotey-Ahulu, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• So that means the toolmakers maintained mental maps of where to go find it, Potts said.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Joe Krapohl, 64, of Otisville has spent more than 30 years working at GM as a toolmaker.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• Some were made of a volcanic rock, obsidian, that didn’t come from the area, meaning the toolmakers traveled miles to get it.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• He was employed with Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks as a toolmaker for over 45 years.
  — courant.com, 3 July 2018
• This is the toolmaker opting to make a tool to do the job rather than performing manual labor themselves.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 July 2022
• Levallois technique requires the toolmaker to prepare a stone, called a core, by pre-shaping it.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
• Prickett loves fixing things; her father was a toolmaker who made pieces for machines.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• The way a tool was made tells us about the individual's hand strength, for example, and maybe even the toolmaker's cognition and language skills.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2016
• But the complexity of the tool technology — how the tools were made — also can reveal a lot about the cognitive ability of the toolmaker.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2018
• For the Levallois technique, the toolmaker takes an oblong, relatively flat flint nodule and strikes flakes off the thinner sides of the core all the way around its circumference.
  — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• In a 2001 interview, Dr. Ernst described himself as a toolmaker.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• But evidence from sites such as Nyayanga is starting to point to both Paranthropus and H. habilis being a toolmaker.
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• In the company founded by his parents, Klaus Lenhart served his apprenticeship as a toolmaker.
  — David Clucas, Outside Online, 1 May 2012
• Jungers holds open the possibility that the Shangchen toolmaker was a species of Australopithecus, a group of more ape-like hominins to which the iconic fossil Lucy belongs.
  — Colin Barras, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
• And while the toolmakers are still honing their technologies, even more labs are hard at work deploying them in mouse research with specific questions and targets in mind.
  — Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Canadian toolmaker now offers 10 versions, with the Picquic Sixpac Plus as its flagship.
  — Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
• Stanley Black & Decker, a big toolmaker, is moving production of its Craftsman brand of tools back to America.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• An ongoing challenge facing the space industry is the shortage of toolmakers.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, the same precision and skill that allowed production of longer edges also allowed toolmakers to vary their edge length for techniques like Levallois or for making short bladelets.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2018
• So were the Acheulian toolmakers smarter than any human relative that lived prior to 1.8 million years ago, and is this potentially the point in human evolution when language emerged?
  — Shelby Putt, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• So were the Acheulian toolmakers smarter than any human relative that lived prior to 1.8 million years ago, and is this potentially the point in human evolution when language emerged?
  — Shelby Putt, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• Like Lego pieces Horvath grew up in Colmar, in eastern France, inheriting a fondness for tinkering from his father, a toolmaker.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• His stepfather, Conrad Olson, a blacksmith and toolmaker, taught Mr. Engman metal-working skills that paved the way for his sculpting career.
  — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
• The chip industry has just five major toolmakers now, so Twig said large chipmakers like Samsung and Intel have a great incentive to help keep Lam and its competitors up to speed with the latest technology.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Named after the archaeological site outside of Paris where the technique was first recognized and described by archaeologists in the 1860s, the process allows a toolmaker to create a tool of predictable size and shape.
  — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Hixson, a retired toolmaker, received one tainted shot in September 2012 and another in October of that year.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2017
• After growing up in nearby Aarhus, Dam started out as a toolmaker in a plastic moldings factory, but soon tired of the relentless precision required of that profession.
  — Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Some of its brands include storage solution firm ClosetMaid, lawn-and-garden toolmaker Ames, and garage doormaker Clopay, among others.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024