lumberman

Example Sentences

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A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020

Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2020

They told him they needed somebody to fire up the crowd and that his muscular build fit the image of the lumberman they were looking for.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2017

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

But as Mrs. Bobbsey cried out, the log struck a stone and turned over, and if the lumberman had not jumped he would have been thrown.

From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Hope, Laura Lee