How to Use workman in a Sentence

workman

noun
  • The dining room has a sober, workman-like look about it.
    Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Once in Teller, W.R. found the workman's wife, who led him to their boat.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Oct. 2017
  • There were 14 children in a small house, and no workman’s comp.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2018
  • David Selig thought the smell of pot might be the result of workmen smoking it on their breaks.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The leather yoke at the front chest and upper back give it the authentic workman’s feel.
    Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
  • One workman said the crews would continue spraying the boat through the night.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2018
  • Michigan opened the game with a workman-like, 16-play, 64-yard scoring drive.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Only a trusted few of Ford’s workmen had access to the space.
    Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Outside one tent, a pair of workman’s shoes sat on the ground, covered with a light dusting of snow.
    Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • At 2 p.m., workmen with shovels opened up a small cut in the cofferdam built at the west end of the Montlake Cut.
    Jennifer Ott, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
  • People still flocked to the fair grounds, and policemen were busy keeping the idly curious out of the way of the workmen. ...
    Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The wood-and-steel tower, which took workmen six weeks to make, was a stunning piece of craftsmanship.
    Bloomberg.com, 4 July 2017
  • The cave was discovered as workmen repaired house, which had been built in 1840.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
  • Johnson is a run stopper with a good motor, while Gedeon brings a workman-like approach to the game.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Banksy has created a large mural in the British port of Dover showing a workman chipping away one of the 12 stars on the EU flag.
    Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • But his workman like style -- hat down, moving from one song to the next -- left little room for wow moments.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But the number of workmen trained on bamboo is dwindling.
    The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Some directions were left up to workmen of the day to interpret.
    Vipal Monga, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • That’s right, Worksman has always made bikes for workmen.
    Lili Göksenin, GQ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • And then workman comp's insurance tried to draw from my account.
    Kyung Lah, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
  • During the renovation, when the workmen were putting the finishing touches on the new home, one man asked to use the restroom.
    Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The library will be closed that morning, allowing the workmen to begin at 5 a.m. and work until noon.
    courant.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • That's how the Phaneuf era begins with the Kings: with a warm outlook and a workman-like approach of a Western Canadian.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That should allow even a workman-like effort from Cincinnati’s own offense to carry the day.
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The young man, who already looks to be resembling a junior Chip Gaines with his auburn locks and workman jeans, then drove home with his father.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Bites were served at a bar where bread was sliced with a workman’s saw and for dessert, oversize bricks of chocolate were hammered into with a chisel.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In the photo below, Sipma is seen using a spray gun as workmen steady his ladder.
    latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • But workmen carved the second Brave out of a plaster wall set for demolition.
    Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Managers told the inspector workmen would be coming to address the problem by the following week.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Yeah, a lot of them were supposedly just thrown away, or burned, even, for heat by the workmen, these 18th-century workmen who had first uncovered them.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024

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