How to Use lumberjack in a Sentence

lumberjack

noun
  • Over the past ten years, men have dressed like preps and lumberjacks.
    — Will Welch, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The lumberjack unscrews the lock to a new trailer parked on his land.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • The whole cute lumberjack look is so fun, and is anyone else obsessed with those boots?
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2018
  • And, oh yes, there will be free popcorn during the lumberjack shows.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a man inside the barn, full of body and beard like a lumberjack, and his phone is ringing.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Aaron must have been a lumberjack in his former life and no one can tell me different.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But the Tide went to work with the zeal of voracious lumberjacks.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Plaid can be preppy, when seen in suiting, or for the lumberjack in a flannel shirt.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Luke somehow manages to still look like a lumberjack, even while wearing a bow tie and a vest.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Think a chic take on a flannel that’s more fashion-forward and less lumberjack.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Some woman with curly hair showed up and took him from the arms of a lumberjack-looking man in overalls.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In only half a day, a lumberjack can cut down enough trees for an entire print run of one of our issues.
    — Harper's Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The lumberjacks really didn’t help the match at all, and in fact, overwhelmed the match at times.
    — Aaron Oster, baltimoresun.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Black and red checkered, like a classic lumberjack’s shirt or a hunter’s jacket.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Turner was a stocky veteran with red hair down to his shoulders and a lumberjack beard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • Pooh Bear has swapped the little red t-shirt for a lumberjack suit and Piglet is clad in black.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • David was an Eagle Scout with the body of a lumberjack and the heart of a poet.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • As if his man bun and lumberjack beard hipster combo wasn’t already keeping the ladies away.
    — Deanna Rilling, Billboard, 18 June 2017
  • His photos captured the hard sweat of lumberjacks and the colossal scale of their harvest.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
  • But this fall, there are plenty of plaids that go beyond the typical lumberjack shirt.
    — Lindsay Peoples, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Matt Cogar is a full-time lumberjack athlete, who competes and trains year-round.
    — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Paul, always handsome, now with the look of a dashing coiffed black-Irish lumberjack.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Did these sisters see the silhouette of a Bigfoot or a big lumberjack with no neck?
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • Matt Cogar is one of the most dominant athletes in the world of lumberjack sports.
    — Saj Pothiawala, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Think of this as a real-life chain, similar to a chain that lumberjacks use to pull logs out of the woods made of metal/iron links.
    — Wayne Bell, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
  • One of the Bunyan stories the pair shares, in fact, can be traced to an actual lumberjack.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Gudbranson rose to his skates and gave Hartman a lumberjack cross-check into the back.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Musk also took a swipe at Duffy’s status as a world champion lumberjack speed climber.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And there are flashbacks to her father’s days as a lumberjack and her mother’s special powers.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • That was a year after Lily Tomlin clomped around the stage in a plaid flannel shirt and lumberjack boots.
    — NOLA.com, 11 June 2017

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