How do you use Draftsman in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like draughtsman or draftsperson, plus the exact meaning.
Draftsman meaning
- US standard spelling of draughtsman.
- A person who drafts legal documents.
Synonyms of Draftsman
Using Draftsman
- The main meaning on this page is: US standard spelling of draughtsman. | A person who drafts legal documents.
- Useful related words include: draughtsman, draftsperson, skilled worker, trained worker.
- In the example corpus, draftsman often appears in combinations such as: as draftsman, draftsman and, draftsman in.
Context around Draftsman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Draftsman
- In this selection, "draftsman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, young, orderly, senior, working, influenced and became stand out and add context to how "draftsman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a draftsman and a skilled draftsman became best. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "draftsman" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with draftsman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cuyp's drawings reveal him to be a draftsman of superior quality. (12 words)
He moved to Mannheim to work as a draftsman and designer in a scales factory. (15 words)
Drawings and prints Young Country Girl Dancing Boucher was a very prolific and varied draftsman. (15 words)
Kahn worked a string of odd jobs to help support his parents and seven siblings, ultimately landing a position as a draftsman at the office of the architect George D. Mason, despite only having a seventh-grade education. (38 words)
Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee (at $8 a week), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton. (35 words)
After being discharged from the navy and while attending Union, he began work at the Jackson Electric Department as a part time draftsman and then as an engineering coop attending UT Knoxville. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Father McMillan graduated from high school in 1941 and went to work for Bell Telephone as a draftsman.
After being discharged from the navy and while attending Union, he began work at the Jackson Electric Department as a part time draftsman and then as an engineering coop attending UT Knoxville.
As a young draftsman working for respected Glasgow firm Honeyman and Keppie in 1893, Charles Rennie Mackintosh put together designs for a newspaper office on Mitchell Street.
Eventually, he began to work in Detroit as a draftsman at White and Griffin, an incubator for Black architects.
He moved to Mannheim to work as a draftsman and designer in a scales factory.
He retired as a draftsman from Charles T. Main Company in the Prudential Center in Boston.
Kahn worked a string of odd jobs to help support his parents and seven siblings, ultimately landing a position as a draftsman at the office of the architect George D. Mason, despite only having a seventh-grade education.
A computer aided designer who excels in technical drawing is referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.
After being in training programs for languages, engineering, and pilot training, all of which were cancelled, he served as an orderly, draftsman, and artist.
After completing his Bachelor of Architecture in 1924, Kahn worked as senior draftsman in the office of the city architect, John Molitor.
A U.S. mechanical engineer or skilled worker who creates technical drawings may be referred to as a drafter or draftsman.
By his own account, his time as a draftsman influenced his later work, using machines as metaphors of human activity.
Cuyp's drawings reveal him to be a draftsman of superior quality.
Dalí, a skilled draftsman, became best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.
Drawings and prints Young Country Girl Dancing Boucher was a very prolific and varied draftsman.
Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee (at $8 a week), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.
However, that office was actually shared with friend and draftsman George Elmslie, who was hired by Sullivan at Wright's request.
In later years, whenever Griffin was brought up in conversation Wright would downplay his achievements and refer to him as a draftsman.
Niemeyer joined them as a draftsman, an art that he mastered (Corbusier himself would later compliment Niemeyer's 'beautiful perspectives'.
Schwitters spent the last one and half years of the war working as a technical draftsman in a factory just outside Hanover.
Common combinations with draftsman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as draftsman 11×
- draftsman and 5×
- draftsman in 3×
- young draftsman 2×
- draftsman at 2×
- draftsman named 2×