paperhanger

Example Sentences

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

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He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer