paperhanger

Example Sentences

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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

From Time Magazine Archive

His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.

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

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You have to do so many kinds of work in examples, that it's hard to remember whether you're a farmer or a paperhanger.

From The Cinder Pond by Rankin, Carroll Watson