paperhanger
Example Sentences
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In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
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I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.
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In the early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany."
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Then the smiling paperhanger worked with astonishing rapidity and said that he didn't object in the least to having four pairs of bright eyes watch from the doorway every strip go into place.
From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.