workman

Example Sentences

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He occasionally overburdens the reader with minutiae of political and organizational rivalries and is more workman than stylist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Kevin O'Donoghue told the High Court in Edinburgh that around the time his neighbour went missing, the workman told him Ean wasn't coming back as he had gone to live with his sister in England.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

No confirmed deaths have been reported from any of the recent eruptions, but a workman was declared missing after falling into a fissure opened by the volcano.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2024

In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson