How to Use silversmith in a Sentence

silversmith

noun
  • Potters, wood carvers, a weaver and a silversmith will demonstrate their techniques.
    — azcentral, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Either way, the local silversmith's wife is extremely thirsty, and not for water.
    — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Batubulan is renowned for its stone carvers, while Celuk is populated by gold- and silversmiths.
    — Elizabeth Woodson, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2012
  • As a poor and orphaned 14-year-old, Jabez Gorham was apprenticed to a silversmith.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • The goldsmith or silversmith had been content to make plain dashes, so to speak, with his chisel, and these dashes had been allowed to make patterns.
    — V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • John Betteridge was a silversmith who made snuff boxes and match holders for the English gentry.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
  • But many Native artists, silversmiths and weavers believe trading posts have long exploited their work and failed to treat them fairly.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • These were made for my family by a Boston silversmith named Paul Revere.
    — Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
  • During his recovery, Pruitt was bored and asked a neighbor, silversmith Greg Lewis, to teach him the trade.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Navajo, Zuni and other Native silversmiths who took up the trade first worked in silver melted down from coins.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Created by itinerant silversmiths, often women, they are worn not only as a display of wealth but also as a shield for the wearer’s health.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Kahlo also collected the work of the fashionable Mexican silversmiths of the day.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • Like a silversmith, this guy doing like really intricate jewelry, like silver work.
    — Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Argentiere PagliaiEverything at this silversmith is made by artisans in the back of the shop.
    — Amanda Brooks, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2018
  • With its own silversmith in Gainesville, Texas, the company makes its own buckles, money clips, bolo ties, hat pins and other silver items.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Cherokee silversmith Kassie Kussman handcrafts jewelry with a diligence alien to most.
    — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The Curio also stocks one-of-a-kind jewelry by local silversmith Valerie Pearce.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • None existed along the unlit road just outside town where silversmith Roy Johnson died in 2022.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Brooks told the story of Simon Chaudron, explaining that this master silversmith was the first to use sterling silver as the standard.
    — Abby Wilt, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Brooks told the story of Simon Chaudron, explaining that this master silversmith was the first to use sterling silver as the standard.
    — Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2017
  • For this is the city where Sotirios Boulgaris, a Greek silversmith, arrived in 1881, hoping to make his fortune.
    — Alice B-B, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
  • The top portion is a deep blue color, while the bottom has a wispy silver band wrapped around it that was designed by local Scottish silversmith Lucy Woodley.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
  • In fact, a skilled silversmith in Christofle’s Yainville, France headquarters crafted each piece (The vasques alone took 80 hours each to create).
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Chalhoub acquires Christofle, the French silversmith that launched Michel Chalhoub’s dream in 1955.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Comic books had already fed the filmmaker’s love for drawing, as did a community of artists and storytellers — the painters, silversmiths, potters and weavers — on her reservation.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Yet many of the finest craftsmen of the era—the same goldsmiths and silversmiths creating luxury objects for aristocratic clients—were also producing watches.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 3 July 2026
  • Everyone in the novel is jostling for small scraps of power, even if that only means more commissions for a local silversmith or commanding the favor of the egotistical magistrate.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 7 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, master silversmith Steve Leicht cuts and solders the base together, and baths it in acid to clean the silver for polishing and final assembly.
    — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The one currently at the top of the trophy is an exact duplicate of the original, made by the family of silversmiths who have been engraving the Cup since the tradition started.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 22 May 2018
  • His father, Shmuel, a silversmith, jeweler and art teacher, decided that his prospects would improve in America and emigrated on his own.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022

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