How to Use smith in a Sentence

smith

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  • Ancient smiths developed the techniques needed to make metal tools.
  • Nathan Rousseau smith shows us the little known perks to Prime.
    — Frances Yue, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • Smith lost his job and now depends on food stamps to live.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 May 2017
  • Gränsfors Bruk axe heads are stamped with the initials of the smith who forged them.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
  • Smith is the biggest of the competitors, with great arm strength.
    — Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 18 May 2017
  • The smith offers to build the gods a wall in a seemingly impossible amount of time.
    — Lidia Yuknavitch, New York Times, 15 May 2017
  • Folders are the true test of a smith’s skill as a machinist and designer.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
  • In the armed forces tournament, eight members redeploy to the forge and go head-to-head against one other smith in a five-hour battle.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Smith, 25, had missed several weeks because of a forearm strain.
    — Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
  • An unknowing heir to a throne and a talented young sword smith discover their fates. 7:30 p.m. May 8.
    — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Needing help, Din ends up turning to a group of Anzellan droid smiths, who inform him that the only way to get his friend back is to track down a specific part.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And those shopkeepers and smiths had been defeated, dismissed, and sent scurrying to the valley of misery.
    — Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Ditto eyes: Smith spills plenty of ink on her characters’ limpid, luminous irises.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 19 June 2017
  • Japanese smiths washed themselves before making a sword.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • For the performance, casebolt and smith (the dance duo of Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith) recounted the myth first in entertaining patter, while a video behind the stage projected classic paintings of the characters.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • Water service has not been interrupted so far as the transition is already underway, Stutz smith said.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2019
  • Japanese smiths forging blades for the samurai developed a masterful technique to create light, deadly sharp blades.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Every custom smith either began by imitating the Model 3 or currently does and calls it by another name.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Sep. 2019
  • From weavers to gold smiths, the artisans that filled Europe with museum-quality handicrafts have largely disappeared, their skills outsource to machines.
    — Nicola Leigh Stewart, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to the ballet company, other tenants include a photographer; a videographer; a painter; a metal smith; and a jeweler.
    — Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2017
  • An accomplished word smith and producer, the Mississippi native is still considered by many to be an underrated underground act, having yet to hit that major crossover status like many of his peers in this new age of Rap and Hip Hop.
    — Marco Torres, Houston Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Carter’s company is also working on developing more varieties of PPO-free apples, including granny smith, Fuji and gala.
    — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017

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