How to Use furrier in a Sentence

furrier

noun
  • Bradleys was a top London furrier and couturier set up in the 1860s.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 8 June 2018
  • His father, Joseph, worked as a welder for the Singer sewing machine company, and his mother, Louise, sewed for a furrier.
    Nate Chinen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The furrier, who passed in 2006, lived with his family in Germany, but grew uneasy as Hitler rose to power.
    Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 13 Jan. 2017
  • His mother was a homemaker from what is now Ukraine, and his father was a furrier and shop owner from Poland.
    Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The furrier was founded about 1905 by his grandfather and a partner.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2017
  • His father, Damianos, a furrier, left for several years to work in New York.
    Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • His father, a furrier, was from Romania, and his mother was from Latvia.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This new kid is a little furrier, with the pair surprising their four children with a black baby goat on Wednesday.
    Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • His father, Leo, was a furrier, and his mother, Eva (Tzizes) Jaffee, was a fur saleswoman.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • Raised by a family in New York City, Nathan was trained as as furrier, but hated it, according to his grandson.
    Melanie Savage, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • His father was a furrier, a trade that didn't interest Rockler.
    John Ewoldt, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • In Dixon’s case, an investigator spotted a receipt for a fur coat cleaning and happened to know the furrier.
    Doug Donovan, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Athena Papadopoulos is showing ruddy sculptures at Shoot the Lobster that are made with fur (her father was a furrier) and that look like hanging meat.
    Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
  • In Argentina, a furrier who had served as honorary consul became one of the most notable spies in South America.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2022
  • His father, Isak, was a furrier, and his mother, Bertha (Deutscher) Lerner, was a homemaker.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • For the wife of a furrier who had grown up in the outer boroughs and had an accent to match, Ms. Mason’s suggestion was to pretend to have a cold and stay mum and let her husband do the talking during the board interview.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The young girl entranced by fancy furs in Vienna went on to become the muse of furrier Dennis Basso, walking down the runway in a full-length sable coat and swanning around Manhattan in mink.
    Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Her father, Abraham, was a furrier; her mother, Gertrude (Bernstein) Katz, was a homemaker.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Her students have included a physician from Syria, a businesswoman from Japan and a furrier from Poland.
    Mary Compton, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Only Bowie appears on the airbushed cover, which depicts him holding a guitar with one leg cocked high outside what looks like a theater but was actually the K. West furrier.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 16 June 2022
  • His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his father was a furrier.
    Louie Estrada, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2020
  • Joni, Santiago, Leslie, and Owen battled all kinds of challenges and villains—including an evil furrier and a relic thief—and solved mysteries.
    Laura Bradley, HWD, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Her father worked a variety of jobs, including furrier and taxi driver, and her mother, a pianist who had studied at Juilliard, taught piano.
    Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In the early 20th century, furriers discovered the the pelts of Arctic white foxes could be dyed to replicate any natural fur, or even turned colors not found on animals (pink, for instance).
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
  • Her immigrant roots — a father who had immigrated from Russia, and who became a furrier.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • His father, Benjamin, was a furrier, and his mother, Fannie (Davidson) Cohen, was a homemaker.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Under Lagerfeld’s direction, Fendi arguably became the most famous furrier in the world.
    Colleen Barry and Daniela Petroff, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
  • The organization, which is now a charity that works with schools and housing shelters, has its roots in the medieval trade guild of furriers and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1327.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • Her father, Seymour, started a successful business in 1961, selling and repairing check writer machines after working for years as a plumber, furrier and in other skilled-trade jobs.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018

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