How to Use woodcutter in a Sentence

woodcutter

noun
  • The woodcutter watched as his friend cut it down.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • She was forced to work as a nursemaid, fieldhand, and woodcutter.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The woodcutter and his friend had to creep along a path that ran beside a wall, one of the oldest in the country.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Her husband, a woodcutter, could make the equivalent of $4 a day.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Jean-Claude Grumberg, who is co-writing the film with Hazanavicius. Told in the form of a classic fairy tale in 2D animation, it is set during World War II, and tells the story of a poor woodcutter and his wife who live deep in the Polish forest.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 18 June 2022
  • Climbing food prices drained the 32-year-old woodcutter’s savings, and his family sold their truck.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
  • And in Syria, a lion teaches a woodcutter the perils of greed and the meaning of friendship.
    — Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Farmers with oxen gather fruit and tend vineyards in one panel, and Dionysus and other gods help woodcutters chop down trees in another.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
  • As in a fairy tale, Omeir is born to a young widow in a woodcutter’s cottage in 15th-century Bulgaria.
    — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • His family had been woodcutters, and, for him, becoming a horticulturist was a kind of karmic reparation.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
  • Amateur woodcutters would do well to bring the saw and chain in for professional sharpening at the end of every woodcutting season, or after several years of use.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
  • Chainsaw chain travels around the bar at about 70 miles an hour, and professional woodcutters do everything possible to maintain a high cutting speed.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • When their father, a woodcutter, abandons them in a forest, the first sets out in one direction to discover her purpose; the second chooses a different path to find adventure; and the third stays and makes a home.
    — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Evergrande was founded in 1996 in Guangzhou by Xu Jiayin, who local media says grew up in a poor village as a woodcutter’s son.
    — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The trust also hired local men as woodcutters to remove the invasive Mexican weeping pines the British had planted once the cedar was gone, in an attempt to bring back a balance of indigenous species.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Know Your Chain Chainsaw chain travels around the bar at about 70 miles an hour, and professional woodcutters do everything possible to maintain a high cutting speed.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Its coat of arms features two woodcutters, one with light brown skin carrying an ax, the other darker skinned and holding an oar, who symbolize the country’s ethnic diversity, history of slavery and its mahogany industry.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2016
  • Hamaguchi flaunts his quasi-documentarian sensibility in wordless scenes, too, including an extraordinary long take of a woodcutter at work which is among the cinematic thrills of the year.
    — The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The drama intertwines the fate of a Jewish family, including newborn twins, deported to Auschwitz, with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living deep in a Polish forest.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • The drama intertwines the fate of a Jewish family, including newborn twins, who is arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz, with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Oxmoor morphed into the dominant village in Shades Valley, employing 60 foundry men and hundreds of woodcutters and laborers, including, unfortunately, slaves.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018

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