How To Use Workman In A Sentence

We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’
Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
If one of them sees some "chippy" play brewing, Foster tells Workman and Malloy to yell out, "Scott, I got this matchup right here! A ref's life: Much more to the game beyond tipoff to buzzer
It was a workmanlike performance. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately the problem of shoddy workmanship continues even today.

The band's workmanlike performance frequently looked like bored autopilot, while each number sounded more generic than the last. Times, Sunday Times
I ran my fingers along the carved wood, admiring the way the workman had managed to fit motifs from Inuit art into the design without muddying the clarity of the sign. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
If his materials and workmanship were of their normal high standard, he is entitled to some explanation for this unexpected outcome.
While I am a beretta owner, I have found the red labels to be fairly similar to berettas in terms of dependability, performance, and workmanship. while they aren't cheap, they're about $1800 new I think, and I have seen good used ones offered for just over $1000. The Ten Best Best Bargains In Shotgunning
A regular computer user won't benefit from the ease of use and prolly won't be too impressed with the workmanship.
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound. Success A Novel
In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
The entryway of our brownstone was a magnificent piece of workmanship and masonry.
By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. Jude the Obscure
Most of these newer buildings were made of wood, and many showed signs of uncharacteristically hasty construc - tion and shoddy workmanship. Flint, the King
A workman below was using a pneumatic drill to break up some concrete which had already been laid.
He had workman's hands which were rough and covered with calluses.
A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter.
The “Interior of Willesden Church” is excellent as a composition, and a piece of artistical workmanship; the groups are well arranged; and the figure of Mrs. Sheppard looking round alarmed, as her son is robbing the dandy Kneebone, is charming, simple, and unaffected. George Cruikshank
The saddles are handmade with amazing workmanship in leatherwork and braided rawhide accessories.
Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
I myself saw, in the little museum of Signor Sartoris at Primiero, a small aryballos-shaped vase of yellow clay with red ornamentation, which I should undoubtedly take to be of Etruscan workmanship, and which they told me had been found by himself in a field not far from the town. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
We'll have to get a workman in to fix the plumbing/window/roof.
It looked more like a man; a tall, thin man wearing workman's overalls. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
He had been so often on the very point of getting his liberty, and still the cup was dashed from his lips. that I had promised to set him free, whenever he could precure an able negro as his substitute; although being a good workman, a single negro was by no means an adequate price in exchange. Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies
Such guarantees are given free of charge and promise that a product is free from defects in workmanship and materials.
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
You are a mere picture editor, a workman, whose views on editorial staff are of no account.
A bad workman blames his tools, but a good workman also blames his tools if his tools aren't very good. Times, Sunday Times
There were complaints about the quality of American workmanship. Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America
The battle could not have been fought forty years ago, because, on one side, the Church was an idle phantasm, the gentleman too ignorant, the workman too merely animal; while, on the other, the Manchester cotton-spinners were all Tories, and the shopkeepers were a distinct class interest from theirs. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
WORDS OF SIMILAR SOUND: canvas (cloth) principle (rule) canvass (all meanings except _cloth_) principal (chief) capitol (a building) stationary (immovable) capital (all meanings except _building_) stationery (articles) counsel (advice or an adviser) miner (a workman) council (a body of persons) minor (under age) complement (a completing element) angel (a spiritual being) compliment (praise) angle (geometrical) 205. Practical Grammar and Composition
No man ever came back to him and said, ‘Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner.’
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
The Workman 3100 has a Kohler 23 - horsepower air-cooled gas engine.
It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
Because they being the workmanship of the understanding, pursuing only its own ends, and the conveniency of expressing in short those ideas it would make known to another, it does with great liberty unite often into one abstract idea things that, in their nature, have no coherence; and so under one term bundle together a great variety of compounded and decompounded ideas. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
So long as all labor continues to be performed exclusively or usually by slaves, the baseness of all productive effort is too constantly and deterrently present in the mind of men to allow the instinct of workmanship seriously to take effect in the direction of industrial usefulness; but when the quasi-peaceable stage (with slavery and status) passes into the peaceable stage of industry (with wage labor and cash payment) the instinct comes more effectively into play. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
Therefore he is scabbing upon his weaker and less capable brother workman. THE SCAB
And suddenly he notices the workman at a distance standing there and smiling deceitfully, that is, not deceitfully though, I’m wrong there, what is it ... A Raw Youth
If you needed something repaired, you said so loudly and a workman would mysteriously turn up. Times, Sunday Times
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton
The standard of workmanship is very high.
They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
In this case, the court held that the unworkmanlike application of waterproof membranes constituted an ‘event’ on each occasion that it occurred.
As for the quality of workmanship, it is second to none. Times, Sunday Times
Garbed was she in silken raiment of tenderest green, wrought upon with some quaint workmanship of gold and silver. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
This superb jade and silver bangle combines the highest quality of workmanship with a chic new take on jade. Times, Sunday Times
I bought two woolen suits of terrific style and workmanship for $75 each in Rome last winter; regular price was twice that.
The workman in the old machine shop was known as a machinist, an apprentice or a helper. Industrial Progress and Human Economics
The plaintiff was an experienced workman employed by the defendant roofing contractors.
It was a workmanlike effort for a man who had just had one week's holiday. Times, Sunday Times
Taking upon as most peculiar jobs as he could handle - pruner, workman, reaper, laborer - he still couldn't yield sufficient for nine mouths. Archive 2009-11-01
We'll have to get a workman in to fix the plumbing/window/roof.
Nor could you expect some sage old workman to take you under his wing and bestow upon you his store of knowledge.
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
bad workman always blames his tools.
His work is known for the high quality of workmanship and the use of filigree, granulation, and engraved gemstones.
The master's voice The writing throughout was workmanlike rather than inspired. Times, Sunday Times
The leaks may have been caused by bad workmanship or by movement caused by workmen on the roof doing maintenance.
This washhandstand had been made of deal by some one with an excess of turnery appliances in a hurry, who had tried to distract attention from the rough economies of his workmanship by an arresting ornamentation of blobs and bulbs upon the joints and legs. In the Days of the Comet
The first he managed in an efficient, workmanlike manner.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
A bond for a single phase of a development may not be enough to correct poor workmanship on three or four phases.
A workman arrived to install a new electricity meter. Times, Sunday Times
The employer, notionally, gives the workman an unshaped plank of wood, and receives in return a plank that has been sawn and nailed.
Yet despite the complaints and resistance from the builders, the quality of their workmanship stands out. Times, Sunday Times
They hardly set the world on fire with their workmanlike 1-0 win over Croatia. The Sun
Your shoddy workmanship will soon be exposed if your bridges aren't strong enough and the monkeys remain trapped. Times, Sunday Times
Your shoddy workmanship will soon be exposed if your bridges aren't strong enough and the monkeys remain trapped. Times, Sunday Times
However, he seemed happy to look over my plans and that, coupled with workmanlike builder's hands and nice Italian shoes, made my heart skip.
Plaintiffs enumerated a number of problems, defects and unworkmanlike conditions existing in the modular home constructed by the Defendant under its contract with plaintiffs.
Native workmanship can add a lot of aesthetic value.
The company is opening showrooms all over the world and the standard of workmanship here is second to none.
His determination to improve the quality of colonial workmanship and to impose a businesslike system of payments incurred many enemies.
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That story prompted a catalogue of complaints from disappointed new home buyers over delays and poor workmanship.
This is a serious, workman's dog, not the Pekinese or poodle that would denote a fop, and it is both relaxed and disciplined, which simultaneously demonstrates and justifies its confidence in the way things are.
If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he is made the victim offeree and injustice…. Opposing the Austrian Heresy
A workmanlike performance from the Spaniard in the centre of midfield. Times, Sunday Times
I found it to be of poor workmanship and damaged. Times, Sunday Times
A poor workman always blames his tools.
The road is slippery on the high ground hard by, and it is debated at Lisselan House whether the farrier of the Dragoon Guards shall not be asked to "sharpen" the shoes of the animals employed there, for no local workman will touch them. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
By labour, I mean the poor manualist, whom we properly call the labouring man, who works for himself indeed in one respect, but sometimes serves and works for wages, as a servant, or workman. The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
The problem may be due to poor workmanship.
But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except when it occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself to a new invention, which he mostly does at the expense of his fortunes. The New Organon
I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
He buckled, contracted design of atmospheric, whole workmanship, underlines the high quality quality, let you wear a city and spell able female elegant demeanour.
EVER heard that phrase'A bad workman blames his tools '? The Sun
An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A skilled workman, Paddy was always working with his hands at home or with the neighbours.
A bad workman finds much fault with his tools.
His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon.
It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
Now and again some workman would stop to light his pipe, but the others tramped on round him with never a smile, never a word to a mate, pasty faces all turned towards Paris, which swallowed them one by one…
The workman patched the ceiling.
Unless an artist or a workman has an intimate knowledge of the tools of their trade they will never rise to a level of competence necessary to be skilled at what they do.
Mr. Grignion attended and gave an account that the Workman he had employed to examine the Enamel had acquainted him that the enamel is not so good as that produced the last year. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side.
But there are concerns that rushing the scheme will result in shoddy workmanship and badly designed schools. Times, Sunday Times
A solid, workmanlike display, they won't be far away at season's end.
A bogus workman called at six homes in Blackburn claiming to have been sent from a housing association to drill a hole for a cable so a second workman could install an intercom later.
It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
Native workmanship can add a lot of aesthetic value.
Moreover, the court says that the law is well settled ‘that the natural results of negligent and unworkmanlike construction of a building do not constitute an ‘occurrence.’
The plaintiff claims that R & M performed its services in an unworkmanlike manner and that the company failed to complete several of the contractual requirements.
The workman's son who speaks four languages acknowledges that his caustic wit and plain speaking are not always understood. Times, Sunday Times
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Functional or ornamental, one could not deny their skill and workmanship.
For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency.
The letter went on to say poor workmanship was not covered under the insurance policy.
Something happened to the "bower" -- an unromantic workman mowed it down -- but by this time there was a little house there which Mrs. Clemens had built, just for the children. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
a bad workman quarrels with his tools.
Bill Clinton was deemed the best performer by 31 percent-evidence that he had succeeded in staging the kind of unruffled, workmanlike performance he needed. FACE TO FACE TO FACE
Work makes the workman.
As is the workman so is the work.
The copper gilt grate is a marvel of workmanship, and the mantelpiece is most delicately finished; the fire-irons are beautifully chased; the bellows are a perfect gem. Letters of Two Brides
I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor(Sentence dictionary), whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
It was a workmanlike second half from Carlow, but the margin reflected the gap between the divisions.
According to the research, 84 per cent of tradesmen claim going for the cheapest quote is the main reason homeowners end up with poor workmanship. The Sun
People came from far and near to admire his workmanship and skill.
She took a training in bookbinding in London under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson and established her bindery at Hull-House in which design and workmanship, beauty and thoroughness are taught to a small number of apprentices. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
Beneath it lay more men's clothes, including linen tunics of fine weave and workmanship.
Included in the deal was the four-wheel-drive Musso, a workmanlike offroader which had never really achieved anything.
The latter half of the eighteenth century turns the workman who was once a handicraftsman helped by tools, and next a part of a machine, into a tender of machines.
The problem may be due to poor workmanship.
And get chummy with your local building inspector, whose job it is to spot shoddy workmanship.
It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand. A Study of Shakespeare
Is the special risk of injury a relevant consideration in determining the precautions which the employer should take in fulfilment of the duty of care which he owes to the workman?…
The sword is a fine example of Celtic workmanship.
Lawson's workmanlike approach to the Hull game was typical of the whole team, who are making far fewer sloppy mistakes than earlier in the campaign.
A mixture of bad workmanship, bad materials and bad design has left an extraordinary legacy of decay.
An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
Jarvis said it was worried about the damage to its reputation from accidents allegedly caused by poor workmanship.
Beneath it lay more men's clothes, including linen tunics of fine weave and workmanship.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
The viaticum is the tramp-money that may be claimed from his guild by the travelling workman. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
A third said that they had asked for their parents' help specifically to avoid the costs of hiring a skilled workman. Times, Sunday Times
In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style.
Only a skilled workman can split slate into layers.
Their workmanship and quality control was so good that their reputation spread across Spain, and business grew. Times, Sunday Times
We'll have to get a workman in to fix the plumbing/window/roof.
This is a practice which is abhorrent to clock professionals and considered unworkmanlike.
If you needed something repaired, you said so loudly and a workman would mysteriously turn up. Times, Sunday Times
You can't get this standard of workmanship from the chippies on the site.
with a workman's callous hands
When the magnificent pile of buildings called Fonthill Abbey was exhibited to the public, before the sale of its curious and costly furniture, it contained an amber cabinet, as beautiful in workmanship as material. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852
Available in several shapes, sizes, finishes and tips (including rollerball, ballpoint and fountain), all of the pens are refillable and are guaranteed for life against mechanical failure due to faulty materials or workmanship.
‘Government cannot afford to carry the costs of repairing shoddy workmanship when it has to deal with huge backlogs,’ he said.
Parisian workman could not conceal a certain brigandish air that was second nature to them. Monte-Cristo's Daughter
As well as offering excellent workmanship and using top quality materials and finishes, Custom Kitchens take a fresh and innovative approach to kitchen design.
Others have had to pay to remedy poor workmanship. Times, Sunday Times
He accused the garage of shoddy workmanship on the bodywork.
The miners had done all that digging to get this new cavern open in a matter of days, and here was Akuma ignoring their fine workmanship.
Exquisite workmanship is the outstanding characteristic of these artistic handwork's.
Our buyers insist on high standards of workmanship and materials.
A workman takes a hank in his hand and throws it into an opening in the lining case surrounding the scutching drum.
Battle royal was waged, amid the smoking of many cigarettes and the expectoration of much tobacco-juice, wherein the tramp successfully held his own, even when a socialist workman sneered, There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Chapter 13
Not only that, I got some days off on workman's comp.
It appears that a workman was doing repairs below the roof and using a blowlamp.
The mantle piece -- remember that on this portion of a great building, some artists, by their exquisite workmanship, have become world-renowned -- is formed of a beam of wood, covered with strips of tin procured from cans, upon which still remain in black hieroglyphics, the names of the different eatables which they formerly contained. Louise A. K. S. Clappe, "Dame Shirley"
Nevertheless many craftsmen, and Michelagnolo in particular, have been of the opinion that the Ritonda was built by three architects, of whom the first carried it as far as the cornice that is above the columns, and the second from the cornice upwards, the part, namely, that contains those windows of more graceful workmanship, for in truth this second part is very different in manner from the part below, since the vaulting was carried out without any relation between the coffering and the straight lines of what is below. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
There was a push, for instance, to train workers to weatherize homes to make them more energy-efficient, but the audit found that "substandard workmanship" plagued the program. A Green Course
Goodwin wrote that the defendants did not violate Workman's due-process rights, because states and localities may legally keep children out of school if they are not immunized, which is "precisely what the defendants did here. The Charleston Gazette -
The workmanlike Campbell deserved a goal for his efforts, and thought he had it four minutes before half time only to see his simple finish ruled out by a linesmen's flag.
“A single week’s thoughtlessness and dissipation is often sufficient to undo a poor workman forever,” wrote Smith about life in London. Born Again
As is the workman so is the work.
Yeah, they'll win a lot of games in an efficient, workmanlike fashion.
Every chamber is furnished with an armoire, or clothes-press, and a chest of drawers, of very clumsy workmanship. Travels through France and Italy
High pressure sales techniques, extortionate prices and poor quality workmanship await those who agree to free security checks from suspicious firms cold-calling at the door or over the phone, warn police.
Only a skilled workman can split slate into layers.
He had interrupted a workman -- or rather, a workwoman -- at a task for which she was appropriately dressed. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Guilds also tried to guarantee good workmanship, so that consumers would not have to worry about shoddy quality on the part of some unscrupulous profit seeker. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Shoddy workmanship was only breach of contract, and a contract suit didn't have the counterpunch she needed. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
Of course I am prepared to be told that as I am not a lockmaker my opinion is worthless; but I have been about 28 years as man and boy, employer and workman, in the building trade, and if I have not got to know something about builders 'hardware during that period, I have made but a poor use of my time. Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures
A detailed, workmanlike production, just not one that burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart. Times, Sunday Times
He hired a workman to repair the fence.
This biography is short, sound and workmanlike rather than a sparkling text. Times, Sunday Times
An attendant then presented to him a lump of melted glass on the end of his pontil, and the workman, deftly twisting it round the neck of his decanter, clipped it off with a pair of scissors, and proceeded to smooth and shape it by means of the plyers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
A recent survey found that 86 per cent of consumer complaints in the last five years were due to poor workmanship. The Sun
An exquisite piece of workmanship, it is operated by a manual lever and recreates the sounds of the harp, harmonica and piccolo.
Mr. Kendall testified that what was being described he would characterize as a workmanship deficiency.
RALEIGH -- Whosoever is the workman, it is reason he should give an account of his work to his workmaster. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)
That error, one could infer, demonstrates unworkmanlike performance and led to excessive excavation.
As the value of the label manifestly depends upon the trade it entices, the unions are careful to emphasize the sanitary conditions and good workmanship which a label represents. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
As he tells it, Kwan approached his criminal life with workmanlike discipline.
As she tells me this, the doorbell rings and a workman comes in to check some door frames in advance of the move. Times, Sunday Times
An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
A workman arrived to install a new electricity meter. Times, Sunday Times
an unworkmanlike tool
The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing.
A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter.
A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work. Elements of Plumbing
Details like workmanship, buttons, buttonholes, cuffs, and seams are usually good indicators of the item's quality and authenticity. where to find the goods
The court concludes the defendant breached the contract with the plaintiff by using inappropriate materials and installing the posts and rails in an unworkmanlike manner.
He said the fire was caused by a faulty timer, and not poor workmanship.
Without prejudice to the Sub-Contract's overall obligations in respect of quality and workmanship, the Sub-Contractor shall comply with Schedule 25 – Siemens Quality Requirements.
What's that phrase about a bad workman blaming his tools? The Sun

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