mason
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Pour the slices into a mason jar or glass container and mash with a fork.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
A lot of people do mason jars but, because pop tops are square, you can fit more in a space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Cliff Douglas, the mason, said he had assessed several fireplaces along one street and returned to find the tiles gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
On one side, the crunchy or trad or zero-waste kitchen, with its mason jars full of sourdough starter and unpasteurized milk.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025
Once I saw him trying to make an ant colony, filling a mason jar with dirt.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Among the finds at the dig were a section of wall, cut stones with a masons mark, pottery, slate and a Henry III coin dating from around 1270.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
Members of the Hollywood Basic Crafts — a coalition of labor unions advocating for drivers, electricians, location managers, plumbers, mechanics, cement masons and other industry tradespeople — are still in contract talks with the AMPTP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
Peasants thus had to work periodically for the empire as farmers, herders, weavers, masons, artisans, miners, or soldiers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo; The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a’ weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an’ blew Awa’ like feethers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"It stood there," he indicated a fallen shed beyond a masoned channel, choked with the broken stones of its walls and tangled shrubbery.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
The stream poured solid and green through the narrow, masoned course of the forebay, sweeping in a lucent arc over the lip of the fall.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.
From I and My Chimney by Herman Melville
It was discovered about forty years ago, and it may be seen in the vestry within the Norman chapter-house, where it is masoned into the wall over the chimney-piece.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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