How to Use toolmaker in a Sentence

toolmaker

noun
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  • The company is a leading toolmaker.
  • Starmer was born in 1962 in south London to a nurse and a toolmaker.
    — Olivia Konotey-Ahulu, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • So that means the toolmakers maintained mental maps of where to go find it, Potts said.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Joe Krapohl, 64, of Otisville has spent more than 30 years working at GM as a toolmaker.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Some were made of a volcanic rock, obsidian, that didn’t come from the area, meaning the toolmakers traveled miles to get it.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • He was employed with Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks as a toolmaker for over 45 years.
    — courant.com, 3 July 2018
  • This is the toolmaker opting to make a tool to do the job rather than performing manual labor themselves.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • Levallois technique requires the toolmaker to prepare a stone, called a core, by pre-shaping it.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Prickett loves fixing things; her father was a toolmaker who made pieces for machines.
    — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But the complexity of the tool technology — how the tools were made — also can reveal a lot about the cognitive ability of the toolmaker.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2018
  • For the Levallois technique, the toolmaker takes an oblong, relatively flat flint nodule and strikes flakes off the thinner sides of the core all the way around its circumference.
    — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • In a 2001 interview, Dr. Ernst described himself as a toolmaker.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • But evidence from sites such as Nyayanga is starting to point to both Paranthropus and H. habilis being a toolmaker.
    — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the company founded by his parents, Klaus Lenhart served his apprenticeship as a toolmaker.
    — David Clucas, Outside Online, 1 May 2012
  • Jungers holds open the possibility that the Shangchen toolmaker was a species of Australopithecus, a group of more ape-like hominins to which the iconic fossil Lucy belongs.
    — Colin Barras, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • The Canadian toolmaker now offers 10 versions, with the Picquic Sixpac Plus as its flagship.
    — Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Stanley Black & Decker, a big toolmaker, is moving production of its Craftsman brand of tools back to America.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, the same precision and skill that allowed production of longer edges also allowed toolmakers to vary their edge length for techniques like Levallois or for making short bladelets.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2018
  • So were the Acheulian toolmakers smarter than any human relative that lived prior to 1.8 million years ago, and is this potentially the point in human evolution when language emerged?
    — Shelby Putt, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • So were the Acheulian toolmakers smarter than any human relative that lived prior to 1.8 million years ago, and is this potentially the point in human evolution when language emerged?
    — Shelby Putt, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • Like Lego pieces Horvath grew up in Colmar, in eastern France, inheriting a fondness for tinkering from his father, a toolmaker.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • His stepfather, Conrad Olson, a blacksmith and toolmaker, taught Mr. Engman metal-working skills that paved the way for his sculpting career.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
  • The chip industry has just five major toolmakers now, so Twig said large chipmakers like Samsung and Intel have a great incentive to help keep Lam and its competitors up to speed with the latest technology.
    — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Named after the archaeological site outside of Paris where the technique was first recognized and described by archaeologists in the 1860s, the process allows a toolmaker to create a tool of predictable size and shape.
    — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Hixson, a retired toolmaker, received one tainted shot in September 2012 and another in October of that year.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2017
  • After growing up in nearby Aarhus, Dam started out as a toolmaker in a plastic moldings factory, but soon tired of the relentless precision required of that profession.
    — Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The Middle Paleolithic marks a cultural shift when humans began to make smaller, more complicated tools, often requiring toolmakers to shape their stones in a multi-stage process.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2018
  • While making a hand ax basically involves improving an existing rock’s shape, making blades and points means the toolmaker must have begun by first visualizing the ideal shape of such a tool, then reworking the rock to serve that purpose.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The toolmaker is also transferring operations from a facility in Cheraw, S.C., to two other plants in Tennessee.
    — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That discovery challenged the existing thinking that man had exclusivity on toolmaker skills.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017

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