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Workman in sentence

56 examples of Workman in a sentence

The workman was busy when the garden caught my attention.
They do what they have to to start their own butcher shop and when a workman is accidentally locked in the cooler overnight while fixing a light, they hit upon something that makes their butcher shop far more popular than their old boss's.
There are also some characters in congo Express put together without having really a relation to each other: Jean, (de Congolees), the workman, the two taxi-drivers, the street-singer, Roger, Guy, Lucienne and Gilbert.
It seems after recent-renovations to the structure of the building there have been some strange-occurrences: a workman hurt in an unexplained-blast, and strange electrical-surges.
You can't escape from yourselves.'Glancing in the direction in which Peter was looking she saw a workman, nearly dead-drunk, with his head swaying about, who was being led off somewhere by a policeman.
A single idea occupied his head--the empty head of a workman without work and without lodging--the hope that the cold would be less keen after sunrise.
The workman employed at the tipping-cradle, a red-haired lean fellow, did not hurry himself; he pressed on the lever with a sleepy hand.
The workman, after having emptied the trains, had seated himself on the earth, glad of the accident, maintaining his savage silence; he had simply lifted his large, dim eyes to the carman, as if annoyed by so many words.
Near the tipping-cradle the workman had not stirred, gathered up in a ball, burying his chin between his knees, with his great dim eyes fixed on emptiness.
At the barrier each workman took his own, stamped with his number; then he examined it and shut it himself, while the marker, seated at a table, inscribed on the registers the hour of descent.
"Oh! it's solid," replied the workman tranquilly.
A very good workman, he could speak well, put himself at the head of every opposition, and had at last become the chief of the discontented.
Only a workman belonging to the earth-cutting, waiting the hour for descent, was digging up his patch of vegetable ground without raising his head.
He had never met a workman who grew accustomed to it so quickly.
In his poor workman's room there was nothing but a box of papers and books.
For a year he had laboured there as a good, sober, silent workman, doing day-work one week and night-work the next week, so regularly that the masters referred to him as an example to the others.
The dazed workman found himself in an office furnished with old mahogany, upholstered with faded green rep.
He is a good workman; it would vex me to have to give him his certificate back, as we did of old to the famous Rasseneur, who still poisons the Voreux with his ideas and his beer.
you, a good workman who have always been so sensible, one of the old Montsou people whose family has worked in the mine since the first stroke of the axe!
The elections some day, the tribune in a gorgeous hall, where he could thunder against the middle class in the first speech pronounced by a workman in a parliament.
He jumped at once on to the pavement, a thin, insipidly handsome man, with a large square head--in his black cloth frock-coat he had the Sunday air of a well-to-do workman.
Only in these continual shocks he came upon familiar images which seized on his audience by their energy; while his workman's gestures, his elbows in and then extended, with his fists thrust out, his jaw suddenly advanced as if to bite, had also an extraordinary effect on his mates.
Then he attacked him by flattery, affecting surprise that a workman of his merit should so compromise his future.
It offended his workman's heart, in spite of his resentment.
It was no longer a master, it was a mate; and a certain respect held them back before this old workman.
I am only a workman like you others.
Not a workman stirred, only at rare intervals was one to be met by chance, isolated, with sidelong look, lowering his head before the red trousers.
It would be enough if the workman and the peasant in the barracks were to remember their origin.
The workman listened, seized with the popular hatred against the army--against these brothers whose hearts were changed by sticking a pair of red pantaloons on to their buttocks.
He was experiencing the repugnance and discomfort of the workman who has risen above his class, refined by study and stimulated by ambition.
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