How to Use stonemason in a Sentence

stonemason

noun
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  • The stonemasons, their tools, the trees, the money, the nuns, have gone to the other side.
    — Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • One of the Germans was a carpenter and the other a stonemason.
    — David Kamp, Vanities, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Throughout the course of 1938, Rowe, with the help of an Italian stonemason, built a home in a small town on the shoreline of Connecticut.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795 in the village of Ecclefechan, in the Lowlands of Scotland, the son of a stonemason.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The limestone blocks that comprise the walls were hand cut by German stonemasons.
    — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The house was built around 1923 by Dan Montenegro, an Apache stonemason.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Of course, there is a saucier story telling how a stonemason had an affair with the wife of a baker whose shop faced the cathedral.
    — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The longtime stonemason, who retired in 2014 and is now blind, spoke fondly about his work for Trump and their trips together to Mets and Yankees games.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Eight hundred stonemasons, gilders, painters, wood-carvers, and upholsterers worked on the job.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 July 2017
  • Papoli had quit his homeland years ago to set up shop as a stonemason here in neighboring Iran, just outside Tehran.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • When the couple returned to their home in Vancouver, B.C., Dan, a stonemason, confronted a new life.
    — Amber Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Masonic origins date back to the guilds of stonemasons who built castles and cathedrals during the middle ages.
    — Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Their workers, an eclectic group of out-of-state organic farmers and stonemasons, are put up in apartments.
    — Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The patient had suffered from partial hearing loss for 20 years, probably as a result of his work as a stonemason, which involved a lot of loud noise.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • His father was a stonemason and his mother a homemaker.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The wronged husband took the couple to court to end the affair and in retaliation the stonemason placed the horned bull facing the shop to remind the baker who his wife really desired.
    — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Her commemorative statue, which was designed and carved by York Minster stonemason Richard Bossons, stands at just over six and a half feet tall and weighs around 4,000 pounds.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
  • A local stonemason built their moongate using rocks from the inn's Hill Country property.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 19 June 2017
  • In 2006, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child’s gravestone would violate its copyright.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • To implement their design, then collaborated with stonemason Jee-Shaun Wang (follow @jeeshaun), who carved the basin into the rock by hand.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 19 May 2023
  • The President’s paternal great-grandfather was a stonemason whose grave is in Loudon Park Cemetery.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 31 July 2021
  • Remember, Trump has many supporters who won’t back anything short of a stonemason standing alongside the border with a trowel.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • One scout still climbed the slope every morning and another replaced him every night, and if one of them occasionally fell asleep or the other spent his hours kissing Marina Trevich, the stonemason’s daughter, who was to know?
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Beyond, in the shadows, lies a 15-foot-tall conical cairn — a traditional pile of stones in a formation that has ancient Scottish roots — created by Stephen Bundschuh, a local stonemason.
    — Nancy Hass Ngoc Minh Ngo, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Harder to replace: dancers, stonemasons and steelworkers.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • The Asaa mermaid was created by Palle Moerk, a local artist and stonemason who carves both gravestones and figurative sculptures; among the latter, pigs, owls, and human hands making gestures (both obscene and not) are favored themes.
    — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In twelfth-century Florence, 14 guilds called Arti Minori represented the interests of a range of artisans in petty trades, from butchers and stonemasons to innkeepers and bakers.
    — Vanessa A. Bee, The New Republic, 3 June 2020
  • Billy has recently received an odd letter dated 1862, written by his great-great-grandfather, a stonemason.
    — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Their great-great-grandfather, Jirí, allegedly shoved a Roma stonemason from a steeple in Prague, inaugurating a series of mishaps and pratfalls handed down the ladder of generations.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The age-old techniques that many of these stonemasons, carpenters, and metalsmiths inherited from their fathers and grandfathers helped give the project its authenticity.
    — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 10 July 2023

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