How To Use Tradesman In A Sentence
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This is a job for a skilled tradesman.
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They could not be more different - one a headline-seeking showboater, the other a gritty tradesman - but they love batting together.
The Sun
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So how can homeowners find a reliable tradesman, ensure that the job is done well and seek redress if things go wrong?
Times, Sunday Times
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Between "keelish," "coblish" and "sheelish," the respective dialects of the north-country keelman, pilot and tradesman, he had at his command a source of supply unrivalled in vituperative richness, abundance and variety.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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WHEN was the last time you winced at a tradesman's price list?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not the honest tradesman who makes a rapid fortune; indeed, it is doubtful whether he could carry on his business; and yet, from assuetude and not being taxed with dishonesty, the shopkeeper scarcely ever feels that he is dishonest.
Diary in America, Series Two
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Meanwhile at the opposite counter a deaf and grisly tradesman was casting a flinty look at certain cards, apparently combining advantages of business with religion, and shoutingly proposed to him in
Daniel Deronda
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The tradesman was vigorously soliciting for my custom.
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If I draw this bill where I have no reason to draw it, where I have no demand, or no effects to answer it, or if I give my correspondent no advice of it, I abuse the remitter, that is, the man whose money I take, and this reflects upon my credit that am the drawer, and the next time this tradesman wants money at
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
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The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.
Oliver Twist
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On me, a mere prosperous tradesman, and busy politician and man of the world, devolves the delicate and responsible task of being the first to write the life of the greatest literary genius this century has produced, _and of revealing the strange secret of that genius_, which has lighted up the darkness of these latter times as with a pillar of fire by night.
The Martian
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Joyce isn't speaking with ‘sly humour’ but with livid anger that a tradesman is delaying his book's publication.
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The rivalry between a gentrified family and a wealthy tradesman turns to tragedy when the former use their discovery of the dark past of the tradesman's daughter-in-law to thwart his building plans.
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How did those experts, the cabman, and pikeman, and tradesman, come to find it out?
Roundabout Papers
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The son of Mr. Smith, a rich neighbor, used to come to see the blacksmith everyday and for hours and hours he would enjoy himself watching how the tradesman worked.
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The tradesman alighting to untruss a point, Tom leaped at once into his saddle, and galloped off both with his horse and portmanteau.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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At his first arrival he finds it necessary to send for the taylor, perruquier, hatter, shoemaker, and every other tradesman concerned in the equipment of the human body.
Travels through France and Italy
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A tradesman whose whole capital consists of ten rigsdaler is no tradesman.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
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A docile Labrador dog was tethered five metres away from its owner, who was disguised as a tradesman.
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His tip is to line up good builders and tradesman when you buy, rather than waiting until you own the property.
Times, Sunday Times
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WHEN was the last time you winced at a tradesman's price list?
Times, Sunday Times
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Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
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But I as the seventh child of a small tradesman at Noyon, I had not a sou to my name, nor personal knowledge of any capitalist but Daddy Gobseck.
Gobseck
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WHEN was the last time you winced at a tradesman's price list?
Times, Sunday Times
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A cooper is a tradesman who makes wooden vessels such as barrels, buckets and tubs.
Waynesboro Record Herald Homepage RSS
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Each trade required in the building was to be represented by a master-tradesman of that denomination, who should stand responsible for his own section of labour, and for no other, Somerset himself as chief technicist working out his designs on the spot.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came ....
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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Every tradesman ought to read the contract carefully before he strikes hands with a stranger.
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This is a job for a skilled tradesman.
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The tradesman balanced his losses against his profits.
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He witnessed the fatal electrocution of a tradesman, and saw at a very early age just how dangerous the workplace could be.
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Finally, she was joined by an old bearded tinker who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools.
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-- As you say, that my clothier, that is to get so much by the purchase, should refuse to put me in possession; did you ever know any man's tradesman serve him so before?
History of John Bull
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So if you're a tradesman or woman who makes a difference - we want to hear from you!
The Sun
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Another tradesman in Grattan Street said he heard the motorbike pull up and heard the shot.
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Jack was a tradesman and Alice ran a grocery and general store.
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The killer unscrewed the silencer and put it and the gun back into the pocket of his dustcoat, doing it unhurriedly and with a tradesman's skill.
Autumn Maze
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Perhaps inevitably, with such wealth and diversity an oligarchy of local tradesman emerged, organised into a merchant guild.
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Officers and tradesman are there to implore the gods to bless the voyage of Hamilcar.
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All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering folly or vice ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a tradesman's tragedy.
