mason

Every spring, mason Mohammad Ghulam Sarwar boards a train to Indian Kashmir, seeking higher wages despite the risk of being targeted by militants in the disputed Himalayan region.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Pour the slices into a mason jar or glass container and mash with a fork.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

Pappu Verma, a mason, now works from 7am until noon, then again from 4pm until 7pm.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Hockey is like that of a medieval mason who helped lay a forgotten stone in a cathedral’s foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The craftsmen were the master quarryman, the master stone cutter, the master sculptor, the master mortar maker, the master mason, the master carpenter, the master blacksmith, the master roofer, and the master glass maker.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The team of masons, covered in dust and sweat, had been working in the ruins of the Altadena house for hours when a shout echoed across the wreckage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

An estimated 2,000 masons, carpenters, restorers, roofers, foundry-workers, art experts, sculptors and engineers worked on the project - providing a huge boost for French arts and crafts.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

The week-long recruitment drive began on Tuesday, with a 15-member Israeli team overseeing the process and expecting to fill over 5,000 positions for masons, carpenters and other construction workers in Israel.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Living near them were other enslaved people with special skills, such as masons and carpenters like Sambo Andersen.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

He stopped up the two doors which communicated with the aisles of the church, and the two which opened into the chancel, and which, though visible, still remain masoned up.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various

So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

"It stood there," he indicated a fallen shed beyond a masoned channel, choked with the broken stones of its walls and tangled shrubbery.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought. 

From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos