woodchopper

Example Sentences

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It’s a counterintuitive fact that a player with the supplest shot in the NBA, whose overarching quality is feel, has the hands and work habits of a woodchopper.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2016

Unlike Schmeling, Uzcudun, a Basque woodchopper who wore shoes for the first time at the age of 24, is almost always noisy.

From Time Magazine Archive

On her wedding night, Caroline discovers that her husband is a boor: he is "panting like a woodchopper felling young birches in the forests of Touraine."

From Time Magazine Archive

He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there he was, the woodchopper, swinging up and swinging down again.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen