mason
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"I am afraid of terrorists here," said Shahid Sofi, a 24-year-old mason from Bihar who previously worked in Delhi and Mumbai.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 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 master mason checked continually with his level to make sure the stones were perfectly horizontal and with his plumb line to make sure that the wall was perfectly vertical.
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
Finding enough skilled masons was the group’s first challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
The first firefighters were recruited from tradesmen including slaters, carpenters and masons, aged 17 to 25, because they knew how buildings were constructed.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
He secretly summoned the masons and one of them revealed that he had walled up the bag in some bedroom because it bothered him in his work.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"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
It was discovered about forty years ago, and it may be seen in the vestry within the Norman chapter-house, where it is masoned into the wall over the chimney-piece.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
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
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 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
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
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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