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.

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In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.

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Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.

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

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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