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56 examples of Workman in a sentence

You know that I am an old workman, and that I have always been one of you.
Montsou at his feet, Paris beyond, becoming a deputy perhaps, crushing the middle class in a speech, the first speech ever pronounced by a workman in a parliament.
Then, with the skill and coolness of a good workman who has been reflecting over his task for a long time, he set to work.
It was he; she saw the man again; she looked at his hands placed on his knees, the hands of an invalid workman whose whole strength is in his wrists, still firm in spite of age.
They continued their reflections in silence, counting the days and days that a workman would take to penetrate such a block.
It was only in the Réquillart gallery that he recognized someone standing before him, the engineer, Négrel; and these two men, with their contempt for each other--the rebellious workman and the sceptical master--threw themselves on each other's necks, sobbing loudly in the deep upheaval of all the humanity within them.
For underwater work projects, the workman wears a waterproof suit with his head imprisoned in a metal capsule, while he receives air from above by means of force pumps and flow regulators."
Then for diversion he employed himself at home as a workman; he even tried to do up the attic with some paint which had been left behind by the painters.
The workman who cast it died of the joy—""Let us go on," said Leon.
Next, this idea frightened him; a moment later, he said to himself: 'It would be cowardly on my part not to carry out an action which may be of use to me, and diminish the scorn which this fine lady probably feels for a poor workman, only just taken from the sawbench.'
To have to reckon with a wretched workman who puts on airs, that's what we've come to!''Since my husband, who does not know how deeply he has wounded Julien, thinks he is going to leave us, what am I to suppose?'Madame de Renal asked herself.
The other day, as I was leaving, that woman reminded me of the vast gulf that separates us, she treated me like a workman's son.
It was precisely as a young workman, blushing to the whites of his eyes, hesitating outside the door of the house and not venturing to ring the bell, that Madame de Renal delighted most to picture him.
'That is true; they are all jealous of the state of prosperity to which your wise management has brought you, your family and the town ...Very well, I shall go and bid Julien ask you for leave to spend a month with that timber merchant in the mountain, a fit companion for that little workman.''Take care what you do,' put in M. de Renal, calmly enough.
The council gave him an order to paint his Majesty's arms over the door of the town-hall; he asked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked for eight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and then said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned the money, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a good workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush and taken a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman.
The workman replied, "Senor, this gentleman here" (pointing to a man of prepossessing appearance and a certain gravity of look) "has translated an Italian book into our Spanish tongue, and I am setting it up in type for the press."
A practiced workman can make, without a machine, about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on Lincoln Island had not made more than three thousand, which were ranged near each other, until the time when their complete desiccation would permit them to be used in building the oven, that is to say, in three or four days.
But he was a valuable workman at need--strong, skilful, ingenious, intelligent.
Constantine Levin glanced into the room, which was beyond a partition, and saw that the speaker was a young man with an enormous head of hair, who wore a workman's coat, and that a young, pock-marked woman in a woollen dress without collar or cuffs [At that time better-class women always wore something white round their necks and wrists.]
No one noticed him, and, as he took off his goloshes, he overheard what the man in the workman's coat was saying.
Do you know who this is?' he added, turning to his brother and pointing to the man in the workman's coat.
Behind her was a sullen-looking, robust German workman who pushed her bath-chair.
The naive Ivan, who, it seemed to Levin, best understood the plan, formed an artel [An artel is a workman's profit-sharing association, with mutual responsibility, common in Russia.]
Then a workman, passing in the dim light, says in a low voice, bantering: "Don't you go, little girl.
So Xury and I went to work with him; but Xury was much the better workman at it, for I knew very ill how to do it.
The working part of this day and of the next were wholly employed in making my table, for I was yet but a very sorry workman, though time and necessity made me a complete natural mechanic soon after, as I believe they would do any one else.
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