CONTRACTOR in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for CONTRACTOR, such as:

1. Raytheon is a defense contractor and engineering concern.
2. How can you find the right contractor for your renovation project?
3. It is inadvisable to involve more than one contractor on a project.
4. Not one merchant, not one contractor has been able to impose on me.
5. The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTRACTOR
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contractor
 n.  one who contracts to build things; a party to a contract
Classic Sentence:
1  He had given up all hope of continuing his medical studies and was now a contractor, working a labor crew of Irishmen who were building the new hotel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  Tommy Wellburn, in spite of his crippled back, was the busiest contractor in town and coining money, so people said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  Forgetful of the store and the mills, she spent her time on the lot, arguing with carpenters, bickering with masons, harrying the contractor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Grandmother Majauszkiene knew that because her son belonged to a political organization with a contractor who put up exactly such houses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  The truly national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened to be wide open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
6  weaving shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
7  He went straight from the cowhouse to the counting house, and after a little conversation with the bailiff and Semyon the contractor, he went back to the house and straight upstairs to the drawing room.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 26
8  The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  Not one merchant, not one contractor has been able to impose on me.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  So they sat at the table and wrote three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
11  In the states of the far South the labor of convicts is leased to contractors, and when there are not convicts enough they have to be supplied.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
12  In the first place, there is one improvement which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Example Sentence:
1  Raytheon is a defense contractor and engineering concern.
2  It is inadvisable to involve more than one contractor on a project.
3  The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.
4  It criticises the main contractor for seriously erring in its original estimates.
5  How can you find the right contractor for your renovation project?
6  International contractors started tunneling under this city of fifteen million to help relieve horrendous congestion.
7  Trying to pin down exactly when the contractors would be finished remodeling the house, Nancy was frustrated by their elusive replies.
8  International contractors led by the French started tunneling under this city of fifteen million to help relieve traffic congestion.
9  The home at 66 Bishop St. is nothing glamorous, it was advertised as a fixer, inviting developers and contractors to swoop in for an opportunity to renovate.
10  The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.