How to Use tradesman in a Sentence

tradesman

noun
  • He joined the tradesmen's union.
  • Each time, the tradesman showed up, only to find no one there.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Weitz walked around, shaking hands with the tradesmen of Rodeo Drive.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2013
  • There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, there’s an acute shortage of skilled tradesmen around the country.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Hansen spent the last 10 years researching and building his skills as a skilled tradesman.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In a nation that idolizes its tradesmen, nothing is more sacrosanct than a tradie’s pickup truck.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • From tradesman tool to off-road warrior to bling machine, there's a truck for pretty much everyone.
    — Kirk Seaman, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Like the others, Baker portrayed a tradesman from a bygone era.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Wealthy businessmen and governors are shown, but so are tradesmen and natives.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The tradesmen shops of the old old town have been repurposed as souvenir depots and jewelry stores.
    — Erik R. Trinidad, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • The designer gets a lot of the credit—rightfully so—but the tradesmen are helping bring things to life.
    — House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
  • There were tradesmen, bankers, merchants, families of old money, politicians and more — just like any small town.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • My dad, my uncles, all tradesmen, ladder racks on their trucks, chain-smokers, nights at the Legion.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In that time, tradesmen who left positions went to other professions.
    — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The tradesmen and merchants in town heard the monastery bells ring out eight times a day and began to synchronize their daily tasks to their rhythm.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper's Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Police acted on a tip-off from a local tradesman who had spotted the equipment when looking into the flat.
    — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
  • With skilled tradesmen in high demand, some recent Jeffboat workers have already found new jobs.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Trump grudgingly also allowed a few of the tradesmen working on the building to attend.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Emmanuel Nelson, a 46-year-old tradesman, sat on the stoop of a house blown off its foundation.
    — Author: Anthony Faiola, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The fundamental skills have been passed from one tradesman to another for more than 100 years.
    — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Much like how plumbers, electricians, and other tradesmen install and service other equipment in a home.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2018
  • But the majority of the people in the room were tradesmen taking their lunch break – and that alone has a lot to say about the value a place offers.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That might be enough for some tradesmen and day trippers, but what's the fun in stopping at the first piece in a modular product family that runs deep?
    — New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Wait times will probably only get longer, thanks to a perfect storm of events that created today’s tradesman shortage.
    — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2018
  • With the Titan that's best suited for tradesmen now gone, the half-ton truck's base price rises by over $5000.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Maibach in his statement said more than 1,200 tradesmen and women work at the arena construction site.
    — Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
  • And local tradesmen have contributed their time and expertise to bring the new 3,800-square-foot space up to code.
    — Janice Steinhagen, courant.com, 24 June 2019
  • Costin’s neighbors were mostly small tradesmen and government clerks, the majority of whom were white and some of whom enslaved people.
    — Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
  • So many of our tradesmen are growing older without a generational plan to secure bright young apprentices to carry on the trade.
    — kansascity, 30 June 2018

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