set type
Example Sentences
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He later operated a linotype, a machine used to set type and print newspapers and magazines.
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021
IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set type by hand.
From Economist • Mar. 30, 2018
From there he moved on to work in the press room, where he set type and left each day covered in ink and sweat.
From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 2014
He could set type, too, and worked on the first volume of The New York Times in 1851.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2011
He merely set type, pulled proofs as usual.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
