How to Use stonemason in a Sentence

stonemason

noun
  • The stonemason then uses a drill to core out half a dozen or so cylinder blocks from each slab.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The stonemasons, their tools, the trees, the money, the nuns, have gone to the other side.
    — Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Shelburn’s neighbor, a stonemason, taught them how to mortar and lay bricks.
    — Tory Basile, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
  • On the large marble slab in the family chapel, a stonemason was carving his name with his birth and death dates.
    — Dino Buzzati, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The limestone blocks that comprise the walls were hand cut by German stonemasons.
    — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The text was first reviewed by three clerics and then copied by scribes onto marble for stonemasons to chisel.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • Eight hundred stonemasons, gilders, painters, wood-carvers, and upholsterers worked on the job.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 July 2017
  • One of the Germans was a carpenter and the other a stonemason.
    — David Kamp, Vanities, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Of course, there is a saucier story telling how a stonemason had an affair with the wife of a baker whose shop faced the cathedral.
    — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Most stonemasons engraved an average of 10 lines per day.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • My mom was a receptionist at the local hospital, my dad was a stonemason.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Their workers, an eclectic group of out-of-state organic farmers and stonemasons, are put up in apartments.
    — Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Masonic origins date back to the guilds of stonemasons who built castles and cathedrals during the middle ages.
    — Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Telford started out as a stonemason, and Day reckons the high standard of craftmanship is down to his background.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Papoli had quit his homeland years ago to set up shop as a stonemason here in neighboring Iran, just outside Tehran.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Nearly 100 stonemasons helped to excavate the stone from around the property.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The house was built around 1923 by Dan Montenegro, an Apache stonemason.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The patient had suffered from partial hearing loss for 20 years, probably as a result of his work as a stonemason, which involved a lot of loud noise.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Each Saturday, a stonemason carves a new letter of the poem — drafted by members of a local poet’s guild — into a cobblestone and places it in the ground.
    — Richard Fisher, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Monks consulted existing manuscripts of the Tripitaka, which scribes copied onto marble for stonemasons to chisel.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout the course of 1938, Rowe, with the help of an Italian stonemason, built a home in a small town on the shoreline of Connecticut.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The President’s paternal great-grandfather was a stonemason whose grave is in Loudon Park Cemetery.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 31 July 2021
  • To implement their design, then collaborated with stonemason Jee-Shaun Wang (follow @jeeshaun), who carved the basin into the rock by hand.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 19 May 2023
  • Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795 in the village of Ecclefechan, in the Lowlands of Scotland, the son of a stonemason.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In 2006, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child’s gravestone would violate its copyright.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • That passion is shared by many of the hundreds of workers, from architects and stonemasons to art historians and anthropologists, who have come together over the past five years to help restore the cathedral to its former glory.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Mount Hood log cabins handmade during the Great Depression by the legendary Steiner family of carpenters and stonemasons rarely come on the market.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The brothers, along with some friends and local stonemasons, spent 135 straight days renovating the building, staying true to the original footprint while adding a big picture window in the living room as well as a sprawling deck.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The defense counsel for Cintula, a pensioner and former mine worker, stonemason, writer and public activist, argued that not every attack on an official was terrorism.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025

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