How to Use typesetter in a Sentence

typesetter

noun
  • He was hired by the Los Angeles Times to work … as a typesetter.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2018
  • As soon as the text is available, publishers send it to their typesetter.
    Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • In the days of newspaper typesetters, the exclamation point was called the shriek.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • For a poor, mixed-race boy born in Brazil in 1839, their son had done well to become an apprentice typesetter in Rio de Janeiro.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Because Hinckle worked on paper proofs, every fresh round of his fixes and changes had to be reset by the book’s typesetter.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2017
  • For decades Bintliff worked the graveyard shift as a printing press operator and Joanne was a typesetter for the same company.
    Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The typesetter quickly creates an e-book file, as well as versions for Amazon and Ingram, which can print books on demand.
    Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The next day, the typesetter picked up every letter and sorted them back into the appropriate boxes, ready for the next edition.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But Brown remained a member of the typesetter's union, and when anti-union Right to Work legislation was proposed, the Statesman opposed it.
    idahostatesman, 1 Aug. 2015
  • Their vision: Any computer could connect with printers and typesetters via a common language to print words and images at the highest fidelity.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Betsy was a typesetter for many years and retired as an Executive Assistant from The Travelers.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • His father was a typesetter, and his mother did bookkeeping for an advertising agency.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
  • Interiors feel cool and modern, set in patterns that riff on newspaper and printing press technology—a glass entrance wall leaded in the asymmetrical grid of a typesetter's drawer, desks that imitate 1920s-era reporters' workstations.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Wilson organized the objects within old bulk goods boxes, sample cases, typesetter's trays, sardine cans or other containers in compositions characterized by an eloquent visual logic and a mysterious sense of inner life.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 10 Apr. 2018

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