How to Use lumberman in a Sentence

lumberman

noun
  • High mountain tracts under an abundance of timber should be made available to lumbermen.
    — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • The lumberman crowded in next, becoming the second white man to catch a fatal load of buckshot.
    — Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Her mother was a homemaker, and her father was a lumberman and sawmill owner with one of the largest lumber operations in the area.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026
  • One such place in Butte County got its name when a lumberman called William Leonard rested under a cool tree on a warm day years ago.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Moody, a crew of lumbermen and a local Ojibwe carpenter built the lodge from logs harvested from the surrounding forest.
    — Sharyn Alden, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018
  • For one of Eric’s distant relatives, a lumberman named Moses Grandy, the swamp was at once the site of his bondage and the nexus of his freedom.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Father and daughter are allotted residence in a commune operated by a lumberman who takes Will on his staff to cut Christmas trees.
    — Colin Covert, kansascity, 12 July 2018
  • The current owner's mother grew up here, and until her death a decade ago, never fell out of love with the stately mansion that was built for her family by her grandfather, a prominent lumberman.
    — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Woodward remembers walking through stands of fragrant pines with his grandfather, a lumberman in South Carolina.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • Will’s mental condition is studied, and father and daughter are allotted residence in a commune operated by a lumberman who takes Will on his staff to cut Christmas trees.
    — Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • The drive honors the late lumberman and passionate outdoorsman Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
  • In the spring when the coronavirus first hit, state officials searched far and wide for personal protective equipment, relying on everything from Chinese bankers to a Cromwell lumberman to procure hard-to-find masks and gowns.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In the spring when the coronavirus first hit, state officials searched far and wide for personal protective equipment, relying on everything from Chinese bankers to a Cromwell lumberman to procure hard-to-find masks and gowns.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
    — JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This demand translated into significant revenue for the lumbermen; in 1959, its free on board (FOB) value at Philippine ports was around $91 million, equivalent to about $1 billion today.
    — JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
    — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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