paperhanger

Example Sentences

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

From Time Magazine Archive

A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

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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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You have to do so many kinds of work in examples, that it's hard to remember whether you're a farmer or a paperhanger.

From The Cinder Pond by Rankin, Carroll Watson