How to Use typesetter in a Sentence

typesetter

noun
  • Are the typesetters’ heads jerking around?
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • As soon as the text is available, publishers send it to their typesetter.
    — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The typesetters, busy slotting the evening edition into place, don’t look up.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • He was hired by the Los Angeles Times to work … as a typesetter.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2018
  • He was hired by the Los Angeles Times to work … as a typesetter.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Many jobs have disappeared, like those of farriers or typesetters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In the days of newspaper typesetters, the exclamation point was called the shriek.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Large windows connect the typesetter’s office to the workshop below, where men are lined up in rows, throwing lead slugs of type into trays.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Isadore’s brother David Bloom, meanwhile, worked for a while as a typesetter and proofreader for the Globe.
    — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • His father was a typesetter, and his mother did bookkeeping for an advertising agency.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In reality, Alcala did work at the LA Times, but as a typesetter, not a photographer.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Alcala went back to California after his release and worked as a typesetter for the Los Angeles Times.
    — Jessica Sager, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Since the Gutenberg Bible popularized movable type nearly 600 years ago, typesetters and designers have been trying to pick the best fonts.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • Betsy was a typesetter for many years and retired as an Executive Assistant from The Travelers.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Isadore, a skilled compositor and typesetter, opened a printing shop downtown, while Gertrude worked nearby in the corsetry section of Jordan Marsh’s bargain basement.
    — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • In 1980, the former photographer and typesetter for the Los Angeles Times was sentenced to death for the murder.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Ceccarelli's first husband was a typesetter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, a newspaper still in publication.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In 1976, Rinnert joined In These Times, then a progressive startup publication, as a typesetter.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Despite not using an alias and having prior convictions, Alcala was hired by The Times as a typesetter in September 1977.
    — Barry Levitt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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