How to Use furrier in a Sentence

furrier

noun
  • This was like that, but furrier.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • This was like that, but furrier.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • His father was a furrier, a trade that didn't interest Rockler.
    — John Ewoldt, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • His father, a furrier, was from Romania, and his mother was from Latvia.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This new kid is a little furrier, with the pair surprising their four children with a black baby goat on Wednesday.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • His mother was a homemaker from what is now Ukraine, and his father was a furrier and shop owner from Poland.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Bradleys was a top London furrier and couturier set up in the 1860s.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 8 June 2018
  • The furrier was founded about 1905 by his grandfather and a partner.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2017
  • His father, Damianos, a furrier, left for several years to work in New York.
    — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In Dixon’s case, an investigator spotted a receipt for a fur coat cleaning and happened to know the furrier.
    — Doug Donovan, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • His father, Joseph, worked as a welder for the Singer sewing machine company, and his mother, Louise, sewed for a furrier.
    — Nate Chinen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Knoblauch's father was an experienced furrier, which Nazi soldiers found useful.
    — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Her immigrant roots — a father who had immigrated from Russia, and who became a furrier.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The furrier, who passed in 2006, lived with his family in Germany, but grew uneasy as Hitler rose to power.
    — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 13 Jan. 2017
  • His father, Leo, was a furrier, and his mother, Eva (Tzizes) Jaffee, was a fur saleswoman.
    — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • Raised by a family in New York City, Nathan was trained as as furrier, but hated it, according to his grandson.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In Argentina, a furrier who had served as honorary consul became one of the most notable spies in South America.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Her father worked a variety of jobs, including furrier and taxi driver, and her mother, a pianist who had studied at Juilliard, taught piano.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his father was a furrier.
    — Louie Estrada, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2020
  • Her students have included a physician from Syria, a businesswoman from Japan and a furrier from Poland.
    — Mary Compton, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Athena Papadopoulos is showing ruddy sculptures at Shoot the Lobster that are made with fur (her father was a furrier) and that look like hanging meat.
    — Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
  • His father, Isak, was a furrier, and his mother, Bertha (Deutscher) Lerner, was a homemaker.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Under Lagerfeld’s direction, Fendi arguably became the most famous furrier in the world.
    — Colleen Barry and Daniela Petroff, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
  • Her father, Abraham, was a furrier; her mother, Gertrude (Bernstein) Katz, was a homemaker.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • His father, Martin, a Romanian immigrant, was a furrier and hotelier.
    — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • Joni, Santiago, Leslie, and Owen battled all kinds of challenges and villains—including an evil furrier and a relic thief—and solved mysteries.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 18 Apr. 2017
  • His father, Benjamin, was a furrier, and his mother, Fannie (Davidson) Cohen, was a homemaker.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In the early 20th century, furriers discovered the the pelts of Arctic white foxes could be dyed to replicate any natural fur, or even turned colors not found on animals (pink, for instance).
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
  • The young girl entranced by fancy furs in Vienna went on to become the muse of furrier Dennis Basso, walking down the runway in a full-length sable coat and swanning around Manhattan in mink.
    — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023

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