Sentence examples for ironmonger from inspiring English sources
noun
A retailer in iron goods and hardware
Then comes the Hua Tai ironmonger and the Ji Li Lai general store.
His father was a successful ironmonger.
The son of an ironmonger and a schoolteacher, Cairncross graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1933 with a degree in German and French.
As an ironmonger at Dartmouth, Newcomen became aware of the high cost of using the power of horses to pump water out of the Cornish tin mines.
After working as an ironmonger in Birmingham, Eng., the self-educated Ballance emigrated to Wanganui, N.Z., in 1865.
Its high street still has a healthy number of butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, seafood shacks and the superb Blyth & Wright ironmonger that puts B&Q and its ilk in the shade.
The town of Battle was famous for a terrifying home-made firework called the Battle Rouser, whose chief combustive ingredient was available to buy by the pound from the local ironmonger until well into the 1950s.
Born in Canterbury in 1935, he was the son of an ironmonger.
On a recent visit to London, the writer was discomfited by a druggist, a luggage salesman, & an ironmonger before he discovered the cause.
His mother was the daughter of a Dissenting ironmonger from Suffolk; his father was the son of Irish Presbyterians who later became a Unitarian minister.
The man who cannot see that No 1 is the best-looking, as well as the sufficient and sensible form, should print or write nothing but advertisements for lost dogs or ironmongers' catalogues: literature is not for him to meddle with".
