How to Use metalworking in a Sentence

metalworking

noun
  • Weiss said the metalworking trade is still very much alive and well.
    — Lindsey Carnett, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • My mom, Brinker, was trained in silversmithing and metalworking.
    — Minna Shim, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Items for spinning and weaving, metalworking and food storage and processing were found.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The same shopper also uses the gloves for woodworking and metalworking, too.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Kyle Tackett came from a good family that ran a metalworking company with contracts all over the state.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • These require steel, semi-skilled labor and basic welding and metalworking machines.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The era is named for innovative metalworking techniques that swept the region, including the forging of bronze—a durable mixture of copper and tin.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Archaeologists don’t yet know the age of these metalworking remnants, as the analysis is ongoing.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The pinnacle of their trip was a private session with a renowned tinware master in Takaoka, a city famous for its centuries-old metalworking heritage.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • What do dishwashing soap, metalworking products, pet products, shampoo and fertilizers all have in common?
    — Jessica Levy, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2019
  • Dickinson fell in love with swords and fencing around age 14, while attending an English boarding school and studying metalworking.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The majority of the participants ended up using the funding to enter skilled trades such as tailoring or metalworking.
    — Christopher Blattman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
  • 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
  • Dating back some 2,700 years, the discovery sheds new light on the beginning of the region’s rich metalworking history.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Other jewelers put the spotlight on their technical chops, expanding their mastery of traditional metalworking and gem-setting with new ideas or tools.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wabi-Sabi Metals Studio in Denver has metalworking classes that specialize in jewelry to make rings, cuff bracelets, and more.
    — Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, levels below about 18% oxygen could prevent the use of fire, which historically has been essential for metalworking and thus the development of advanced tools.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, the ruling family poured money into soft power, attracting masters of ceramics, lacquerware, metalworking, and silk dyeing.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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