carpenter's square
Example Sentences
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In rough order, I spent a week staining and lacquering the cabinet, learning how to solder, measuring off angles with a carpenter’s square and redoing a few steps I got wrong the first time around.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2013
She’s wrapped tightly in a white bed-sheet and has a carpenter’s square on her head.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Something that looks just like a carpenter’s square.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
A somewhat superior description is built in the shape of a carpenter's "square."
From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard
She looks down, a little puzzled, greatly interested, holding her carpenter's square in her left hand, not wanting that but for practical work; following a diagram with her right.
From Mornings in Florence by Ruskin, John
