carpenter

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Family members have said Craig, a carpenter, has been refusing food for 25 days.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“I’ve dropped it off three-story buildings and it just bounces,” said Niall Buryk, a Toronto carpenter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Sprague co-hosted “Run My Renovation” for the DIY Network and was a carpenter on “Trading Spaces.”

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

Freed from school, from the Council, and from the constant needling of his mother, Antain became a carpenter.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

The result: a 30% drop in employment from a late-2022 peak for actors, carpenters, costumers and the hundreds of other professions that make movies and TV shows, according to Labor Department data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

You don't need to be a scientist, as vacancies are available for everything from carpenters, to electricians, chefs, and even a hairdresser.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

Among the labor donors, the powerful carpenters unions have donated at least $4 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

"He is no man for sitting in a tent while his carpenters build siege towers," Ser Brynden had promised.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011

Suddenly the Fair Folk halted at one of the cottages, and from a neatly carpentered pen Taran heard a loud “Hwoinch!”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

For 23 years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a sideline to his carpentering and cranberry farming, Finnish Fanner Andrew Paananen took to sanding cranberry bogs in Carver, Mass. For this crop-improving work he got two $15 checks from the Department of Agriculture.

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