How to Use handyman in a Sentence

handyman

noun
  • Check out the best tool gifts now for the handyman in your life.
    Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The handyman swore at the lawyer, jumped back in his truck and drove away.
    New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The clip shows the handyman grabbing the flowers and tossing them on the ground.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • He's got his truck and he's got all these handyman jobs.
    Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
  • Hanel lived for free at the home in exchange for handyman work, Burge said.
    Caleb Jones, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Your handyman will find a number of ways to put these light-up gloves to use.
    Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Burda was a live-in handyman at Day’s home in Phoenix, OR.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 11 July 2024
  • Video from his cell showed the 49-year-old handyman struggling with deputies.
    Daphne Duret, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And Cullum, the focus of the first act, takes on a cameo role as a local handyman.
    Tom Titus, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • Kenny Farr was a handyman who worked for many years for both Lewis and Baskin.
    CBS News, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Saeng Syvanthong, 69, once a handyman and groundskeeper, used to get calls from the phone tree.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • Bashara's wife, Jane, was strangled by a handyman in their Grosse Pointe Park garage in 2012.
    Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2018
  • The new warrant speaks of a lying lover and handyman with something to hide.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Paul Michels, 54, was a handyman who loved ones said could build or fix anything.
    Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 27 July 2021
  • Bell has been living off savings and stray handyman work around the Bay Area.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Craigslist isn't just for finding a local handyman in a pinch.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Her husband pinch-hits as the store’s handyman, and her 14-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son are helpers.
    Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The Goffin’s cockatoo is the handyman of the avian kingdom.
    Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There will be a 1900s room, a drunken handyman bar, a botanist room that can be used for private events.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For most of the 1920s, Eddie Bennett was the Yankees’ handyman, mascot and good luck charm.
    New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Majors returned to the apartment and saw the top door locked, called a handyman to unlock it, found Jabbari on the floor and called 911.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2023
  • When my credit card fell through the cracks of the 250-plus-year-old floorboards (a handyman came to recover it for me).
    Lydia Mansel, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Bonola had worked as a handyman at Gaal’s home for about two years, police said.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Bonola had worked at Gaal's home for two years as a handyman, police said.
    NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Bonola had worked at Gaal’s home for two years as a handyman, police said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Your handyman has a busy summer ahead of him, which is why this easy-to-read tape measure is a must-have in his tool kit.
    Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2022
  • If a handyman is asking way below market rates, there may be something more to it than the wish to win the job.
    Melissa Rolland, courant.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • He may have been robbed of cash earned at his other jobs as a carpenter and handyman.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Casey Affleck stars as Lee Chandler, a handyman going through the motions of living until the death of his brother.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024
  • In this coming-of-age comedy, a fourteen-year-old wannabe playwright becomes enamored with a local handyman over the course of summer vacation.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024

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