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Example sentences for "apprenticed"

Lexicographically close words:
apprehensively; apprehensiveness; apprend; apprendre; apprentice; apprentices; apprenticeship; apprenticeships; apprenticing; appressed
  1. That's how it is you are so different from other boys who have been apprenticed from the House.

  2. She was not sixteen when she married Mr. Robinson,--a young man of good fortune, apprenticed to the law.

  3. Fanny Barton ran on errands for a French milliner, and occasionally encountered Baddeley, when the latter was apprenticed to a confectioner, and was not dreaming of the Twelfth Cake he was to bequeath to the actors of Drury Lane.

  4. He had been given a fair education, and had been duly apprenticed and learned the profession of a sailor in a merchant ship.

  5. He worked for a short time as a page-boy, then in some engine works, and at fourteen was apprenticed for seven years to a Millbank engineer.

  6. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and he made this his trade both there and at Worcester, Mass.

  7. As a matter of fact, his grandmother had been a respectable, honest soul, and his mother had pinched and saved to bring him up decently, had given him some schooling, and finally apprenticed him in a good trade.

  8. And at last Mr. Murdstone, as if he could think of nothing worse, apprenticed him as a chore boy in a warehouse in London.

  9. The son of a Connecticut farmer, he had been apprenticed to a watch and clock maker, where doubtless he increased his knowledge of the mechanical arts.

  10. Then her husband was kind to him, and apprenticed him to the sea.

  11. The young girl was next apprenticed to a laundress, and as soon as she received two francs a day for her work, the two francs strayed in a similar manner into Macquart's hands.

  12. When he had grown older he naturally became apprenticed to Vian.

  13. Being thus apprenticed to the goldsmith's art, but taking no pleasure therein, he was ever occupied in drawing.

  14. This man was the son of Mariano Filipepi, a citizen of Florence, who brought him up with care, and had him instructed in all those things that are usually taught to children before they are old enough to be apprenticed to some calling.

  15. It was not until he had taken his degree that he was apprenticed to his uncle, and he was past twenty-four when he was received into the Mercers' Company.

  16. Here, however, we have only to do with the fact that Whittington was of gentle birth, and that he was apprenticed to a man also of gentle birth.

  17. Four girls were with comfort sent out to service, and nine boys were apprenticed at the expense of the establishment.

  18. Three boys were sent to their relatives, as ready to be apprenticed, four boys were apprenticed at the expense of the Institution, and provided with an outfit accordingly; and one girl was fitted out and sent to service.

  19. Six boys were apprenticed at the expense of the Institution, and five other boys, ready to be apprenticed, were sent to their relatives to be apprenticed.

  20. Apprenticed to a coach-painter, his ambition soon led him to London, where he began life as a portrait and historical painter.

  21. He was apprenticed to a staymaker, and in 1760 went to London.

  22. Might he not have apprenticed both his sons to greengrocers?

  23. If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure," etc.

  24. On account of these things my father was very sure that I had mechanical ability, and when I was fifteen years old took me out of school and apprenticed me in a machine shop.

  25. Oftentimes, on account of this, he is very early apprenticed to a mechanic or is given a job in some place where he will have an opportunity to build, operate or repair machinery.

  26. I was born in the country, and when I was fourteen, my father apprenticed me to the watchmaking.

  27. He had been apprenticed in London, and had attended Mr. Bradshaw's ministrations there.

  28. Leaving school at fourteen, he had been apprenticed to his father for seven years, and had worked at the forge down the backyard before coming into the front shop.

  29. He was apprenticed [Illustration: Foot of Brodie’s Close, Cowgate.

  30. He was educated with the view of entering the Indian Civil Service, but, his attention having been turned to the legal profession, he was eventually apprenticed to a Writer to the Signet.

  31. He was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, a London upholsterer, and later to William Rawlins, afterwards sheriff of London.

  32. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Robert Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years.

  33. Blake remained four years with Pars, and then his father, willing that his son should become an artist, apprenticed him in 1771 to Basire in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

  34. At his death he bequeathed the care of his widow and his child to his old servant, Captain John Crowle, who had been in the service of the house since he was apprenticed as a boy.

  35. I will tell you presently how I was so fortunate as to be apprenticed to so fine a craft as The Lady of Lynn.

  36. He was educated at a national school, and, on leaving, was apprenticed to an ironmonger at Belfast.

  37. He was educated at the grammar schools of Hawkshead and Preston, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a printer in the latter town.

  38. When yet a mere child he was apprenticed to a farmer, whom he was to serve until of age.

  39. He returned to his native city and apprenticed himself to the firm of Burtis & Woodward.

  40. He early determined to become a printer and, in 1810, was apprenticed to Messrs.

  41. He accordingly apprenticed himself to a cabinet-maker, but his health would not allow the pursuit of this business, and he was compelled to abandon the undertaking.

  42. Extreme poverty prevented Andrew from receiving any schooling, and at the age of ten he was apprenticed to a tailor.

  43. He was apprenticed at eighteen to a blacksmith.

  44. The two other brothers were apprenticed to the firm of J.

  45. He was the only brother choosing a mercantile life, and at the age of fifteen, nearly sixteen, he was apprenticed to the great A.

  46. At thirteen he began work as a switch-tender; at seventeen he was apprenticed as machinist; at nineteen he was active in a machinists' and blacksmiths' union.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprenticed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.