How to Use tradespeople in a Sentence

tradespeople

plural noun
  • Who doesn't need to have skilled tradespeople to call on to build their home?
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Prairie State has hired union tradespeople for a portion of the work.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • Find local tradespeople who can help reimagine old pieces and give them new life.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Many of them will also be able to recommend good tradespeople to work with.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
  • No muss, no fuss—and no need to cultivate a contact list of tradespeople.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
  • At all phases of the neon evolution, neon signs have been hand-blown and bent over fire by skilled tradespeople.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Others paired struggling tradespeople with youth eager to learn job skills.
    — Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • A lot of it comes down to budget and the availability of tradespeople.
    — Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • Saul assigned a project manager, who brought in good tradespeople.
    — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • That had grown to more than 30%, threatening to crowd out the tradespeople the group was built to serve.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There are also tradespeople in town and servants that get caught in their web, as well as the Queen herself.
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Construction itself will drive more than 6 million hours of work for a wide swath of tradespeople.
    — Thomas Quinn, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2024
  • This would maximize the labor available and allow tradespeople to do more in less time.
    — Lori Moes, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Now he’s created a course for local tradespeople to learn how to learn passive house techniques.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • To track the flow of and payment for goods, tradespeople then used cylinders with designs engraved upon them.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Older tradespeople kept retiring and fewer young people want to work with their hands.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • On a summer morning, the market streets crowded with tradespeople and townsfolk alike.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Her neighborhood and church were filled with the tradespeople who groomed the gardens, sheared the sheep or ran the printing press in the historic area.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Vendors and tradespeople offer home project essentials as well as thoughtful ideas.
    — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Nexstar is on a mission to help the world’s best tradespeople become the world’s best businesspeople.
    — Julian Scadden, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
  • But can America sustain the supply of skilled tradespeople needed for these roles?
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 7 June 2023
  • But amid all that chatter, the enormous demand for tradespeople to build data centers often gets overlooked.
    — Andrew Schaap, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • At a time when there is an acute shortage of welders and other tradespeople, hardly any women are being trained for these and other well-paying jobs.
    — Kelly Field, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Still, some tradespeople are skeptical about how the new technology works and how it can be applied to physical tasks.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The company provides cloud software to salt of the Earth contractors, tradespeople like plumbers and painters.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And that’s why skilled tradespeople are an absolute necessity.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Delivery delays can cause a domino effect of rescheduling work crews, which is worsened by a shortage of skilled tradespeople in many markets.
    — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • At the height of the lockdown, tradespeople weren’t able to go into homes to carry out work, and building materials were unavailable.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 3 July 2020
  • And that has had a really big effect on the local tradespeople and contractors in these small towns that aren’t accustomed to an influx of so many people.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The clock is ticking, the planet is sweating, and the trillion-dollar climate action machine is…missing its tradespeople?
    — Jeff Sprau, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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