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
  • Other anvils are designed for farriers–men and women who shoe horses and do hoof-care.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Many jobs have disappeared, like those of farriers or typesetters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Bennett had a previous career as a farrier and spends his summers competing in local ranch rodeos.
    — Jacob Spetzler, The Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The city will also save on the cost of paying a farrier (an equine hoof care professional) and veterinary services.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Emily Mohring has been a professional pig farrier, akapig husk trimmer, for over 10 years.
    — Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Stable workers, carriage makers, drivers, blacksmiths and farriers lost their jobs.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Each officer owns and cares for their horse at their own expense, which includes food, boarding, veterinary care and farrier service (putting on horseshoes).
    — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 30 July 2024
  • For more on the farrier versus blacksmith anvil discussion, visit the Centaur Forge website.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Timmy Kriz, a farrier and eighth-generation farmer, runs the farm along with his son, farrier son, Cody, 31.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Maka's father, Gary Brown, 37, a farrier from Draper, Utah, agrees.
    — Cathy Free, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
  • She got involved in gay rodeo after having volunteered as a farrier, shoeing horses, for a rodeo in Phoenix in 2022.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These assessment fees are intended to cover services such as veterinary examinations and steward monitoring, and farrier pre-race examinations of horseshoes.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023

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