carpenter

"Then they offered me an apprenticeship and I chose to be a carpenter."

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

An Irish carpenter acquired the isle in Florida’s Lake Marion in the 1880s and built the main house by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even that one had to be slightly altered by a carpenter to satisfy his demand.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

AI has also made its way into the software used by woodworkers and carpenters.

From BBC ● May 11, 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

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

In 1831-33, New York ship carpenters won the first major American victory in reducing work hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

Teams of woodland carpenters, Abbey smiths and laborers, plus any creatures that felt the need to help were lowered down to the road in large wickerwork baskets.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later.

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