How to Use goldsmith in a Sentence
goldsmith
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The mold was then sent to a goldsmith, who produced the final metal print.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
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The tomb is the last resting place of husband and wife Amenemhat -- a goldsmith -- and Amenhotep.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 24 Sep. 2017
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Some of them were trained as goldsmiths, some were architects, some were artists.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 4 May 2018
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The Virginia native founded her company in Florence, Italy in 1986 with some of the world’s finest goldsmiths.
—star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
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Kling doesn’t create classical work, but he has been classically trained as a goldsmith—from the age of 15.
—Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
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Farringdon station is a nod to the blacksmiths and goldsmiths that once dominated the area.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 May 2016
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Fust was a goldsmith and a business partner of Gutenberg’s, in Mainz, forty kilometres from Frankfurt.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2019
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The goldsmith or silversmith had been content to make plain dashes, so to speak, with his chisel, and these dashes had been allowed to make patterns.
—V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
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Born in Florence around 1435, Verrocchio trained as a goldsmith but soon shifted his attention to a diverse range of art forms.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2019
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Their mother might have worn jewelry made by a Jewish goldsmith.
—Michael David Lukas, New York Times, 8 June 2018
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The crumbling statue of a goldsmith and his wife greeted visitors who recently peered inside a 3,500-year-old tomb near Luxor, Egypt, for the first time.
—National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
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Then her mother came to visit, bought an ancient coin as a souvenir, and asked for help finding a local goldsmith to turn it into a piece of jewelry.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2022
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Ur goldsmiths shaped the pieces by hammering, chiseling, and punching.
—Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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When the crown arrived, the king, suspicious the goldsmith had substituted silver for some of the gold and kept it for himself, asked Archimedes to determine if the crown was pure gold without harming it.
—National Geographic, 23 May 2017
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Vallayer-Coster was the daughter of a goldsmith who worked for the Gobelins tapestry factory in Paris.
—Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
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Over the decades, Lake Como became fine silk; Vicenza goldsmiths and jewelry.
—Nancy Hass, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
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Most of the city’s Armenian population, known for its goldsmiths, has fled to Europe or Canada.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2016
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Making these tiny worlds within a ring involves a tribe of artisans: sculptors, goldsmiths, engravers, and miniature painters.
—Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
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Born in Nuremberg as the son of a goldsmith, Dürer had the peripatetic early career known as Wanderjahre, journeyman years.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
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The Antiquities Ministry has made a slew of discoveries over the last year, including the tomb of a royal goldsmith, also in Luxor.
—Elaheh Nozari, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Dec. 2017
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You are trained as goldsmiths but use mostly other materials, why?
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
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Also accused are a jewelry store clerk who the police said helped Joseph carry out some of her killings, as well as a goldsmith from a neighboring town, who is alleged to have provided the cyanide.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
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The bracteates were probably made by talented goldsmiths in the region, using gold melted down from coins paid to Scandinavians who fought for the Roman Empire, Oehrl said.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
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But scholars aren't quite sure how this goldsmith with no formal architectural training managed to construct it.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2018
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Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, Jensen opened his design and silversmithing firm in 1904, and was soon known for Art Nouveau-style flatware, decorative home decor objects and jewelry.
—oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
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She was bought from an orphanage at age 4 by a goldsmith and his wife, raised as a kind of pet with lessons in singing and dancing and deportment, and given charge of their second child, a daughter with multiple physical and mental challenges.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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McShea started out in photography while Mosa trained as a goldsmith, but the two, now partners in work and in life, have long been preoccupied with the interaction between fabric and the elements.
—New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
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The medieval walls of 2 Vicolo Marzio, once a convent, now enclose the workshops of more than 20 orafi and incassatore—traditional Florentine goldsmiths and engravers.
—Sara Clemence, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
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Hemmerle has been applying this theory since 1893, when Christian’s great-grandparents bought the business from a Munich goldsmith.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2018
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For a splurge on a timeless favorite, invest in Santa Monica jewelry designer and goldsmith Carter Eve’s weightless hoops, which are 1½ inches in diameter and can be worn with or without charms.
—Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
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