carpenter's square

Example Sentences

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In rough order, I spent a week staining and lacquering the cabinet, learning how to solder, measuring off angles with a carpenter’s square and redoing a few steps I got wrong the first time around.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2013

She’s wrapped tightly in a white bed-sheet and has a carpenter’s square on her head.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Something that looks just like a carpenter’s square.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

I don't quite—oh yes, I do now—that's it—where my sunshade is—"the edge of a carpenter's square, which connects those unused tools" ... h'm—can you make out the "unused tools," ETHEL?

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 by Various

The young man had taken off his blue apron, and held it rolled up in his left hand, while his right grasped the carpenter's square, exactly as the soldiers held their halberds.

From The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War by Anonymous