carpenter

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

A friend recommended a carpenter, who helped with the termites and trickier renovations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Getting that look, he explains, is when a man "peaks" - he says he's gone from "unsatisfied carpenter working nine to five" to an "online entrepreneur".

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

Kainene said little when they arrived in Orlu and saw no carpenter and no furniture; the men had disappeared with the advance payment.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She believes that because they're only automating the structure of the building, the business model isn't threatening to 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

He said the program isn’t about Hollywood’s stars; it’s about the jobs that productions create, including roles for set designers, carpenters and lighting crews.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

Frank Dario Manfuga, a musician from Cuba, says it was an ad on Facebook recruiting for carpenters in Russia that led him to board a plane in January bound for Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

The men worked as cabinet makers and fine carpenters.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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