paperhanger
Example Sentences
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His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.
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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
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In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
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I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.
From My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather
