How to Use stonecutter in a Sentence

stonecutter

noun
  • Socrates, a stonecutter’s son, felt most at home in the agora, or marketplace, of ancient Athens.
    — Eric Weiner, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • With their rock faces still scored with tool marks, the cliffs have an odd immediacy — as if armies of stonecutters could reappear at any moment.
    — Michelle Green, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
  • After trying to break a stone by tapping it repeatedly, the stonecutter finally cracked it with a tap.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2017
  • Soon after, a Georgia stonecutter found more than three dozen stones, also claiming to have been written by Dare.
    — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 29 May 2018
  • His father, John, was a renowned stonecutter who owned the John Stevens Shop, which opened in 1705.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • He was born in nearby Padua and worked as a stonecutter before moving to Vicenza in 1524.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
  • Among them was Anthony White, a Queensland stonecutter whose illness and death at age 36 were widely covered there.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Laborers lead donkeys and camels with loads of building material to the site, while stonecutters and masons climb the wall and occasionally suffer falls and other mishaps.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
  • According to his son, family lore had it that Evans was an Anglicized version of Eban, the Hebrew word for stonecutter.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Educated as a stonecutter by his older brother Joseph, the teenage Martin was taken on as an apprentice by Thomas Ball.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The son of an immigrant Italian stonecutter, Joseph Bernardin grew up in the South and described himself as twice an outsider because of his heritage and religion.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The continent’s first commercial marble quarry was cut into Mount Aeolus, and stonecutters came from all over the world to work its stone throughout the 19th century.
    — Pete Brook, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2014
  • Set in Germany, this ambitious début novel begins in 1229, when a young serf buys his freedom and becomes an apprentice stonecutter, working on the construction of a cathedral.
    — The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Amid the destruction, scientists have discovered opportunities to learn where the limestone blocks were quarried, as well as how 13th century stonecutters chose each stone’s placement and the order in which portions of the church were built.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The farmland was established in 1891 by Swiss stonecutter George Blum, and stayed in his family for five generations until 2018.
    — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But a skeptical reporter with the Saturday Evening Post, in a devastating 1941 investigative article, unmasked the Georgia stonecutter as a fraud.
    — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 29 May 2018

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