BLACKSMITH in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for BLACKSMITH, such as:

1. He was six foot two, and had a chest like a young blacksmith.
2. The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.
3. I saw Will over at the blacksmith's shop, getting the horse shod.
4. Theoretically, she was already as good a blacksmith as I, or better.
5. The blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round

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 Meanings and Examples of BLACKSMITH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blacksmith
 n.  one who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  In his working-clothes, Joe was a well-knit characteristic-looking blacksmith; in his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances, than anything else.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
2  With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  Theoretically, she was already as good a blacksmith as I, or better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
4  This practical authority confused me very much by saying I had the arm of a blacksmith.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
5  Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  Then, a burst of gratitude came upon me, that she should be destined for me, once the blacksmith's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
7  I saw Will over at the blacksmith's shop, getting the horse shod.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winter's midnight, on the road running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt the deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning, dilapidated barn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
9  And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family's heart.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
10  For a moment, the old blacksmith eyed the razors as though he would fain not use them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
11  He was six foot two, and had a chest like a young blacksmith.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
12  I know I'm a blacksmith at takin keer a sick folks, an yeh never squeaked.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  And to seek to make the blacksmith a scholar is almost as silly as the more modern scheme of making the scholar a blacksmith; almost, but not quite.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In V
14  We were seated near a roadside blacksmith shop, and behind was the bare ruin of some master's home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  There is a store conducted by his black son, a blacksmith shop, and a ginnery.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  As a child, Pip had thought it would be wonderful to work as Joe's apprentice; now he hated his apprenticeship and scorned the blacksmith's trade.
2  The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.
3  The blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round
4  The navvies and the bricklayers, masons and blacksmiths, would troop off to other masters.