paperhanger
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
