TOOLS in a Sentence

Learn TOOLS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
128 example sentences for TOOLS, such as:
1. Bad workmen often blame their tools.
2. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
3. His tools lay neglected in the garden.
4. A poor workman always blames his tools.
5. I have a complete set of carpenter's tools.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TOOLS
tool
 v.  ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
 n.  the means whereby some act is accomplished
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  The Kennicott garage was a shed littered with paint-cans, tools, a lawn-mower, and ancient wisps of hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  In fact it was a good dodge to volunteer "I must not touch," when you looked at the tools on the glass shelves in Father's office.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  At Mount Vernon he admired the paneled library and Washington's dental tools.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
5  This done, he marshalled the planks and his tools, and to work.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
6  There was a little storeroom, too, with a window, where they kept guns and saddles and tools, and old coats and boots.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  Fuchs had been apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in the old country and was very handy with tools.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
8  That afternoon the kitchen was a carpenter-shop; the men brought in their tools and made two great wooden shovels with long handles.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
9  He did not touch his tools at first, but figured for a long while on a piece of paper, and measured the planks and made marks on them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
10  With Charley, who was not interested in business, but was already preparing for Annapolis, Mr. Harling was very indulgent; bought him guns and tools and electric batteries, and never asked what he did with them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
11  "I'll have it ready in little or no time," he said, bustling and packing away his tools.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
12  He went and got his pay and his tools, which he left in a pawnshop for fifty cents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  He required a good deal of work to be done, but gave us good tools with which to work.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  This, with the wear and tear of clothing and calking tools, made my regular expenses about six dollars per week.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  Upon the same plea, he told me to bring my tools and clothing home forthwith.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  A poor workman always blames his tools.
2  Bad workmen often blame their tools.
3  A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
4  When I got to the top of the ladder, please pass up the tools.
5  Don't touch those tools they are not your property.
6  Most of these tools have been specially adapted for use by disabled people.
7  A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
8  He's an untidy worker; he leaves his tools everywhere.
9  Today the principal tools for prospecting the brain are electrical.
10  I have a complete set of carpenter's tools.
11  Computer design tools that work in three dimensions.
12  Some cautions must be mentioned-for example good tools are essential to do the job well.
13  For the modern sales executive, a car phone is one of the tools of the trade.
14  A carpenter's tools include saws, hammers, and screw - drivers.
15  His tools lay neglected in the garden.