How to Use contractor in a Sentence

contractor

noun
  • They hired a contractor to remodel the kitchen.
  • Payne and Dolan is the prime contractor for the project.
    — Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The contractor the city hired to care for the trees said lack of staff led to the skipped waterings.
    — Meira Gebel, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • After the lakebed dries out, contractors will be able to move the silt at the bottom.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The campaign declined to release the name of the contractor.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Police worked with a contractor to scope the well on Feb. 9.
    — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The bid is the bid, and the contractor doesn’t get a dollar extra—the more efficient the service, the larger the profit.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the waste rock in the residential area has since been removed by the EPA and its contractors.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Even then, the car is built by a contractor, rather than being produced by JLR in-house.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The contractor expects the hole will be filled with 150 tons of a water-and-gravel mixture, Pratt added.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 13 July 2023
  • Stock plans are ready to be printed and given to your contractor.
    — Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • To apply as a delivery contractor, go to gannett.com/deliver or scan the QR code in the image below to head over to the site.
    — Staff, The Courier-Journal, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Like many others in this West African country, the contractors have to wait in line for their money.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, the company was the prime contractor for NASA’s space shuttle program.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
  • All of this comes as a new round of contractor bids is set to expire in September.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2024
  • As contractors work on landscaping and fencing around the sign, the city plans to place five more signs around the city limits.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The leak was found to be on school property, so the district was working with a contractor.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That contractor might not have enough cash for new equipment.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The contractor is going to have to rig a rope system to get into some of those spots, Steffen said.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Also, the city has a new debris removal contractor lined up and ready to begin work if the storm changes course and heads west.
    — al, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The contractor selection is a major milestone in keeping the project’s timeline on track for the span to open in 2030.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The city will begin taking bids from contractors in March, with construction to start in August and the pool to open in May of 2026.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In the past, those contractors did not need to reveal much about their carbon footprints.
    — Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Most low-wage federal contractors, on the other hand, would have been out of luck.
    — Robert Reich, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • First, there are teams like Kirkland’s, which employ contractors to track and capture the snakes year-round.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • It’s designed with the pro framer, builder, and general contractor in mind.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
  • An officer spoke to the man and advised him to make arrangements with the contractor to remove his tools from the home.
    — cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Pro Spotlight Searching for New York builders and contractors to hire?
    — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
  • At least one sponsor — Booz Allen Hamilton, a federal contractor — has withdrawn its support for the event.
    — Oriana González and Torrence Banks, Notus, Them, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The contractor stopped the assault by pulling Kristopher Boger off the engineer, prosecutors said.
    — Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 10 Mar. 2025

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