How to Use contractor in a Sentence

contractor

noun

• They hired a contractor to remodel the kitchen.
• After the lakebed dries out, contractors will be able to move the silt at the bottom.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
• The campaign declined to release the name of the contractor.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• The bid is the bid, and the contractor doesn’t get a dollar extra—the more efficient the service, the larger the profit.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Most of the waste rock in the residential area has since been removed by the EPA and its contractors.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• The contractor expects the hole will be filled with 150 tons of a water-and-gravel mixture, Pratt added.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 13 July 2023
• Like many others in this West African country, the contractors have to wait in line for their money.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• At the time, the company was the prime contractor for NASA’s space shuttle program.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
• The contractor selection is a major milestone in keeping the project’s timeline on track for the span to open in 2030.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• Most low-wage federal contractors, on the other hand, would have been out of luck.
  — Robert Reich, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
• First, there are teams like Kirkland’s, which employ contractors to track and capture the snakes year-round.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• It’s designed with the pro framer, builder, and general contractor in mind.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
• The hitch, of course, was that Kelley — at the time, working for a defense contractor in the Deals’ hometown of Dayton — didn’t play guitar.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Both the Corps and its contractor will have people on site to monitor safety.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
• But one key marker of the industry’s health — contractors’ revenues — has yet to bounce back.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
• The bridge district is embroiled in legal squabbles with the contractor.
  — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• Three weeks later, Armstrong said an IBC contractor asked him to sign a new contract.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Walsh added that the companies that use contractors have been able to evade scrutiny.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• For the big military contractors, the surge has bolstered their bottom lines.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Many defense contractors see the war in Ukraine primarily as a way to line their own pockets.
  — Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
• And this year, about half of the monstrous $842 Pentagon budget will go to defense contractors.
  — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• This kit comes with a power drill, charger, batteries, and a contractor bag.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
• Amelia, whose day job is in human resources for a government contractor, formed an LLC about nine years ago.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the season, contractors almost always declare that a balance remains.
  — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• Completed this year, the four-bedroom home was built by local contractors, Gnarly Home Crafters.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
• Seams in the mirror determined the molding placement, and industrial-strength contractor's glue ($9, The Home Depot) holds the off-the-shelf pieces in place.
  — Deb Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Years ago, the group was mostly made up of contractors who listened to Siri queries to ensure their accuracy.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
• Minshew is the Mississippi son of a contractor and a schoolteacher.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
• The district deployed water pumps and fans in classrooms and was working on getting more contractors out to address the damage.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• One side’s arc was about 9 inches short of regulation at its apex, a mistake by the contractor that makes the courts used throughout March Madness.
  — Anne M. Peterson and Doug Feinberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024