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

Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

But I get a good feeling after arriving at the third one and spotting a Strong Shoulder mason jar like we drink iced tea from in the neighborhood.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

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

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 Oscar Wilde

The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo; The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a’ weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an’ blew Awa’ like feethers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.

From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

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

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

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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