There was the ominous sound of gushing water that stopped abruptly as the carpenter, finding the hole in the ship's water line, hammered a shaped plug into the shot hole.

Around them, carpenters were sawing and hammering.

Outside, carpenters hammered professionally upon a hasty grandstand of timbers.

Two blocks from her Senate office, carpenters have been hammering away on the platform that is being built at the western entrance to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony.

Near the first tee, two carpenters affably hammered a door all morning.

She'd been holed below the waterline twice, but the carpenter and his assistants had hammered wooden shot plugs into the holes to stop the leaks.

Around him carpenters hammered wooden supports into place to shore up the flattened highway and keep it from collapsing.

When the carpenters hammered their nails, they hammered for Holy Wood.

Outside, carpenters were hammering the last nails into an eight-story castle and repairing some damaged floorboards.

We survey the houses where carpenters are hammering new raw shingles to replace the rotted wood, or watch as a new building takes shape.