How to Use cooper in a Sentence

cooper

noun
  • The good ones were called tight coopers, meaning their barrels held liquid.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • In Modena, a cooper knocks on oak to hear if the barrel will sing.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The judgment came out of the cooper's hands and went into the jig, the gauge, the sequence, the stopwatch.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The finds included ceramic pieces, glass bottles and clay tobacco pipes, plus a cooper's adze, barrel heads and staves.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Several of the houses have a special person on staff just for the barrels, a cooper who manufactures and replaces the slats that have worn out.
    — Kyle Lucia Wu, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
  • The proper method to test brake fluid is with an electronic tester that measures moisture or PH dip-strips that measure moisture and cooper levels.
    — Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Between courses, a master cooper treated us to a fire-barreling demonstration, unleashing tall jets of flame that shot to the ceiling and filled the air with the aroma of charred oak.
    — Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • Below, in the grainy light of still houses and steadings, maltsters, coopers, and coppersmiths sustain tradition, keeping the stories and glories of single malt whisky alive.
    — Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2025
  • The Oldest Move In The Building A cooper shaping a barrel hoop, 1865.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Floor maltings still running the traditional way, coopers making barrels on site, a 30-year vertical tasting conducted without theatrics.
    — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
  • Forty-two gallons, agreed in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in August 1866, because that was the size of a tierce, the watertight cask coopers had been making for centuries to ship fish and wine.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Loch Lomond currently employs nine coopers, who repair between 20,000 and 30,000 casks annually.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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