journeyman

Example Sentences

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He said battery-electric vehicles’ high-voltage systems require technicians the equivalent of journeyman electricians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

After a difficult start to his NFL career, it seemed Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold was destined to become a journeyman back-up.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Six-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz was put through his paces by German journeyman Yannick Hanfmann on Wednesday before swatting him aside to book his place in the Australian Open third round.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, it was players like Bazardo, a 30-year-old journeyman from Venezuela, working a career-high 2 ⅔ innings without surrendering a run in what was the outing of a lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

The coming of Mr. Percival Tweedie, journeyman silversmith of Baltimore, cast a longer and longer shadow over the Lapham household and conversation.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes