How to Use metalworking in a Sentence

metalworking

noun
  • One approach is to find a metalworking shop near you and pay them to blast the parts.
    Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 13 May 2020
  • Weiss said the metalworking trade is still very much alive and well.
    Lindsey Carnett, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Mars, god of war, becomes March, an Army vet; Hephaestus, god of metalworking, becomes Hap, who runs a body shop.
    Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
  • My mom, Brinker, was trained in silversmithing and metalworking.
    Minna Shim, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2019
  • One of the ways MAKE does this is by bringing in instructors to teach everything from ceramics to metalworking.
    Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • One report even found that 18 percent of the children are tasked with working a power press, a dangerous metalworking device.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • About 4,500 years ago, archaeologist have found, there was a sudden shift in Britain to new styles of pottery and metalworking, known collectively as the Beaker culture.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Amesbury Archer, interred near Stonehenge around the time the bluestones were arranged, was buried with some of the earliest copper goods yet found in Britain, including metalworking tools, knives and arrowheads.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In the resulting black-and-white image, which was published widely in the spring and summer of 1942, Fraley leans intently over a metalworking lathe used to produce duplicate parts.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Its long tradition of metalworking continues with dozens of household smelters that still operate in the village.
    National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • Its long tradition of metalworking continues with dozens of household smelters that still operate in the village.
    Larry C. Price, National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • Located in Rendlesham, Suffolk, just three miles from the burial ship, this new find includes pit-like foundations likely used for the production of crafts, such as weaving and metalworking, some 1,400 years ago.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The flea circus may have gotten its start in 1578, when a London jeweler named Mark Scaliot marketed his delicately lightweight metalworking by hitching a lock and chain to a flea.
    Belinda Lanks, WSJ, 7 June 2019
  • The mythological references first appear in a poem by Mr. Bradford hanging on the pavilion’s facade, written in the voice of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire, metalworking and sculpture.
    Jori Finkel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Lori Rubeling, the professor who taught the class, saw that Kurek needed to follow a different path and do something to showcase his woodworking and metalworking abilities.
    Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has mastered many of the trades Milwaukee championed in the last century: machinery, motors, metalworking.
    John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
  • As the craft of metalworking was emerging in Peru, populations in Argentina may have also been busy hammering away.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • As the craft of metalworking was emerging in Peru, populations in Argentina may have also been busy hammering away.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • Kutch, on India’s western coast, is surrounded by water on three sides and shares a border with what is now Pakistan, where this metalworking technique originated centuries ago.
    Deborah Needleman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The work offers the first scientific evidence of sound-producing artifacts in South Africa from the Stone Age, a period ending some 2,000 years ago with the introduction of metalworking.
    Sarah Wild, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Tickets cost $35 to $55, with proceeds benefiting the center, which offers classes in the industrial arts such as glass-blowing, metalworking and fire-eating.
    Jenna Wortham, WIRED, 9 July 2008
  • There’s just one problem—no one has ever demonstrated the core metalworking and fabrication techniques needed to convert a space station in orbit before.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Thompson believes that these increases seen in the South American ice cap, especially in lead, show the first impact of colonial metalworking activity.
    Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
  • Versatile multifunction models can be close to $100, and heavy-duty metalworking models can be several times that.
    Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • What do dishwashing soap, metalworking products, pet products, shampoo and fertilizers all have in common?
    Jessica Levy, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2019
  • This 30-acre saltwater farm includes a historic barn outfitted with skylights, a metalworking studio, a workshop, and a darkroom, and a separate modern painter's studio with vaulted ceiling, north windows, and storage.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 19 June 2021
  • The sign and metalworking company, formerly located in Louisville, has made products for Trump golf courses before, according to a company employee.
    Thomas Novelly, ajc, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Multimedia artist Nicholas Galanin of Sitka will purchase and fabricate the equipment and tools needed to create a large body of sculptural copper work using traditional Tlingit chasing and repoussé metalworking techniques.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2018
  • Growing up near Bern, Switzerland, within sight of his family’s metalworking business, Alex Schärer had an early introduction to the power of modern architecture.
    Sarah Medford, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Experts uncovered metalworking remains at the site, which could indicate that its medieval inhabitants smelted iron and practiced blacksmithing.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2021

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