How to Use bricklayer in a Sentence

bricklayer

noun

• My dad was a bricklayer in the 70's and sometimes there was no work for him.
  — Marcia Pledger, cleveland.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Bonomo's dad was a bricklayer who also took his son to the track.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 17 May 2017
• Case in point: Leroy Payne, the son of a carpenter and bricklayer from Huntsville.
  — al, 30 May 2021
• The son of a Perth bricklayer, Rowe’s fortune is self-made, like those of many of the vessel’s owners.
  — Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017
• More: Her father was a healthy, 49-year-old bricklayer on a job.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2020
• The bricklayer bought land in western Guyana last month and is now saving to build his first home and buy a new car.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• His father was a bricklayer, but Lahey wasn’t cut out for the trade.
  — Alison Kuznitz, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• Their mother sold food in the streets, while their father was a bricklayer.
  — Julie Turkewitz Victor Moriyama, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• His father was a bricklayer, and for a time Cooper was one too.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
• Her father was a bricklayer, and her mother was a house cleaner and worked at a pub.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Roebuck worked as a bricklayer, in a steel mill, and in a vast and fragrant slaughterhouse that was known in town as the House of Blood.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Not long ago, the boxy, brick-nosed pickup might have drawn the interest of a bricklayer or a roofer looking for a cheap work truck.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• Bob Brady is a vestige of the days when Democrats were aligned with the disenfranchised, the beat cop, the trash guy, the burly Irish bricklayer, and the Italian grandma in a house dress.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But here's what bothered me: Why a bricklayer and not a pipefitter?
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Born and raised in Osogbo, Mr. Akanji used to be a bricklayer.
  — Femke Van Zeijl, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2016
• The firm was able to use just two bricklayers instead of seven, cutting costs despite the $2,900 weekly rental fee for SAM.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• In 1900 his great grandfather William Wood, a bricklayer, had owned his home and land free and clear, no mean feat for an African American man in that era.
  — al, 5 May 2021
• Your mother was a cleaner and your father a bricklayer.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• But with God’s help, her great obstetrician, Dr. Ron Lorenzini, with the big hands of a bricklayer, saved them all.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• His father, a bricklayer, was killed in action during World War II.
  — Peter Keepnews, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• The younger Robinson worked as a teacher and bricklayer, among other jobs, before joining Scholastic in the mid-1960s.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 7 June 2021
• Her father, a bricklayer, was tasked with dropping them off instead.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Think like a bricklayer, spacing bricks a few inches apart, then stacking the next layer with a brick straddling two bricks below.
  — Sally Walker Davies, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2014
• Her father was a bricklayer, her mother a house cleaner and barmaid.
  — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• His father was a bricklayer, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Soloviev's father, Solow, was the son of a bricklayer who dropped out of New York University to go into real estate.
  — Patrick Clark, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Jaime Martínez Miranda, 21, was a bricklayer who was close to his family.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• His mother earned some money in a tobacco shop, while his father eked out a living as a bricklayer.
  — Andrew Marton, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• Getting this done will support thousands of good-paying, middle-class jobs in the skilled trades—from pipefitters and carpenters to bricklayers and roofers.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
• That represents a major U-turn, after ministers added bricklayers to the list to help the construction industry just months ago.
  — Kitty Donaldson, Fortune Europe, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024