"carpenter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was the ominous sound of gushing water that stopped abruptly as the carpenter, finding the hole in the ship's water line, hammered a shaped plug into the shot hole.
- Around them, carpenters were sawing and hammering.
- Outside, carpenters hammered professionally upon a hasty grandstand of timbers.
- Two blocks from her Senate office, carpenters have been hammering away on the platform that is being built at the western entrance to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony.
- Near the first tee, two carpenters affably hammered a door all morning.
- She'd been holed below the waterline twice, but the carpenter and his assistants had hammered wooden shot plugs into the holes to stop the leaks.
- Around him carpenters hammered wooden supports into place to shore up the flattened highway and keep it from collapsing.
- When the carpenters hammered their nails, they hammered for Holy Wood.
- Outside, carpenters were hammering the last nails into an eight-story castle and repairing some damaged floorboards.
- We survey the houses where carpenters are hammering new raw shingles to replace the rotted wood, or watch as a new building takes shape.
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