WORKMANSHIP in a Sentence

Learn WORKMANSHIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for WORKMANSHIP, such as:

1. The problem may be due to poor workmanship.
2. Look at the workmanship on the carved desk.
3. The conjunction of workmanship and artistry in making jewelry decides the value of the jewelry.

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 Meanings and Examples of WORKMANSHIP
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workmanship
 n.  skill in an occupation or trade
Classic Sentence:
1  They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
3  He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
4  The outer court has a wall with battlements all round it; the doors are double folding, and of good workmanship; it would be a hard matter to take it by force of arms.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
5  A farmer in the county north of ours, when he was breaking sod, had turned up a metal stirrup of fine workmanship, and a sword with a Spanish inscription on the blade.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
6  It was a rather curious one of Moorish workmanship, made of dull silver inlaid with arabesques of burnished steel, and studded with coarse turquoises.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
Example Sentence:
1  Look at the workmanship on the carved desk.
2  The conjunction of workmanship and artistry in making jewelry decides the value of the jewelry.
3  The problem may be due to poor workmanship.