mason
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We loaded them into a giant mason jar, but it was too late.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
A lot of people do mason jars but, because pop tops are square, you can fit more in a space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
An Orkney stonemason has turned "snow mason" to build an impressive igloo with a working fire and chimney.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
The king and the mason kneel, high between the river and the sun, on their bit of planking.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"We have no-one to work in the hotels, drive our buses or work in construction; we don't have masons or mechanics," warns Francis Candil, deputy minister for welfare.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
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 tiles must be removed by trained masons, and Save the Tiles now has four crews ready every day, made up of volunteers and workers whose employers are covering their wages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
They weren’t carpenters or masons, and I had to teach them everything from books I bought.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Each house had a paved “stoep” in front, with a masoned seat at either end.
From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
Marlowe of masoned clouds, and Marston, in his better moments, of the fragmentary vigour of a Roman ruin,’ one begins to regret that any one ever thought of the unity of the arts.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Simms keeps his valuable papers in the masoned safe at the bank, you know.
From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.
From I and My Chimney by Melville, Herman
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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