carpenter

“It’s like if you’re a carpenter and someone’s like, ‘Can you make this table?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"We've been here since day one, digging holes all the way down to the ground floor," the 50-year-old carpenter told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

His father, Noel Ernest Hord, was a carpenter as well as a pastor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The court heard the self-employed carpenter and joiner, who had served in the military before an injury cut his career short, had struggled with his mental health.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Mr. Sleegers has been hired as night watchman, and tonight a carpenter from the underground is coming to make a barricade out of our white Frankfurt bedsteads.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

"We have mechanics, we have carpenters, we have real good problem solvers," Leverkus said.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Walt Whitman wrote that he heard America singing in the carols of mechanics, carpenters, and shoemakers building our country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The construction and installation of offshore wind turbines requires the expertise of skilled electrical workers, pipe fitters, welders, pile drivers, iron workers, machinists and carpenters.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Von Ungern-Sternberg was working for the Freiburg Chamber of Skilled Crafts in southwest Germany, a trade body that represents skilled workers, from bricklayers and carpenters, to butchers and bakers, and the companies that employ them.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

By 1331 the carpenters and roofers had completed work on the spire, which rose above the crossing of the nave and the transept.

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

Mines, of course, are highly constructed, carpentered environments—exactly the kind of environment that should produce a large illusion, according to the theory.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2025

For Christmas, he’d given her a table he had carpentered himself, and Karen was going to insist on returning it.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019

Two farmers down the street asked to get married there last fall; guests ate at tables Sarver carpentered and danced late into the night beneath the barn’s vaulted ceiling and wooden beams.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 25, 2016

It’s open at the bottom, and I saw several people direct puzzled glances at its roughly carpentered interior.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2015

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

He was a dab hand at carpentering, doctoring, shipbuilding and grape growing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

His upper body is hefty, his hands coarse from years of carpentering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2020

A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters retired from carpentering but never thought of quitting music.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell