How to Use farrier in a Sentence

farrier

noun
  • There, they are tended to by farriers and grooms and set out across the city with drivers to ply their trade.
    Annie Correal, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2016
  • There were the huge drum horses, the farriers with glinting axes and the buglers.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Patrick is the farrier for the donkeys … people call 'em horseshoers and all that, but our donkeys don't have shoes.
    CBS News, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Today, farriers use a dull version of this blade to clean the crud from the underside of horse hooves, but other than that, these tools aren’t frequently seen anymore.
    Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • His father, in his first letter home from America, lamented that his son’s training as a farrier was for naught.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Maka's father, Gary Brown, 37, a farrier from Draper, Utah, agrees.
    Cathy Free, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Emily Mohring has been a professional pig farrier, akapig husk trimmer, for over 10 years.
    Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2022
  • One is a full-time mom, another a professional farrier.
    Ryan Lillis, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018

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