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synonyms for carpentering

  • assemble
  • erect
  • evolve
  • form
  • make
  • manufacture
  • produce
  • raise
  • reconstruct
  • set up
  • carpenter
  • cast
  • compile
  • compose
  • contrive
  • engineer
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • forge
  • frame
  • model
  • prefabricate
  • rear
  • sculpture
  • synthesize
  • bring about
  • fit together
  • jerry-build
  • knock together
  • put together
  • put up
  • superstruct
  • throw together
  • throw up

antonyms for carpentering

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  • conclude
  • decrease
  • destroy
  • finish
  • halt
  • neglect
  • raze
  • ruin
  • stop
  • demolish
  • disperse
  • scatter
  • separate
  • wreck
  • decelerate
  • dismantle
  • knock down
  • overthrow
  • overturn
  • take down
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How to use carpentering in a sentence

"Edna is very much taken up with her carpentering," he went on.
THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
Carpentering around the arena wasn't a popular job in those days.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
Seriously, I have been doing nothing except a little gardening and carpentering; just manual labour to keep one sane.
THE ANGEL OF PAINE. F. BENSON
Its easy to tell people how to do things, said 196 Tom; but he was clever at carpentering, and had it done in a very short time.
WINONA OF THE CAMP FIREMARGARET WIDDEMER
Don't you see that to-day I've carpentering business on hand.
THE STRANGE STORY OF RAB RBYMR JKAI
I had to work—to learn book-keeping and accounts—cooking—building—carpentering—stock-raising—oh, everything.
REST HARROWMAURICE HEWLETT
The chairs and tables are in some cases hewn out of the solid wood, and in others the result of rough but efficient carpentering.
THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTONJ. M. BARRIE
This man superintended the casks and cisterns; he also amused himself with carpentering.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, VOL. VIIIVARIOUS
He, thinking his mother was melting some glue for carpentering, was eager to know "what papa was going to make next?"
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSONJOHANN DAVID WYSS
The aged woman had but an old knife, no proper carpentering tools, consequently the progress made was slow.
A BOOK OF GHOSTSSABINE BARING-GOULD
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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