How to Use lumberjack in a Sentence

lumberjack

noun
  • Over the past ten years, men have dressed like preps and lumberjacks.
    Will Welch, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018
  • David was an Eagle Scout with the body of a lumberjack and the heart of a poet.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But the Tide went to work with the zeal of voracious lumberjacks.
    Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Pooh Bear has swapped the little red t-shirt for a lumberjack suit and Piglet is clad in black.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • There’s a man inside the barn, full of body and beard like a lumberjack, and his phone is ringing.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The lumberjacks really didn’t help the match at all, and in fact, overwhelmed the match at times.
    Aaron Oster, baltimoresun.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Pacelli, whose thick beard and wardrobe of plaid shirts give him the look of a lumberjack, and his staff carve up a 700-plus-pound steer and three whole hogs a week.
    Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The whole cute lumberjack look is so fun, and is anyone else obsessed with those boots?
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2018
  • There’s far more to see in Salem than the state Capitol topped with a golden lumberjack, and far more to do than visit the state fair.
    oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Some woman with curly hair showed up and took him from the arms of a lumberjack-looking man in overalls.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And, oh yes, there will be free popcorn during the lumberjack shows.
    Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • That was a year after Lily Tomlin clomped around the stage in a plaid flannel shirt and lumberjack boots.
    NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
  • Growing up outside of Vancouver, the son of a lumberjack, Waite was a bit of a jock.
    Chris Vognar, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, John the Venmo creator was awarded the Golden Axe award for being the best lumberjack.
    Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
  • One of the Bunyan stories the pair shares, in fact, can be traced to an actual lumberjack.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
  • His photos captured the hard sweat of lumberjacks and the colossal scale of their harvest.
    Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
  • Matt Cogar is one of the most dominant athletes in the world of lumberjack sports.
    Saj Pothiawala, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
  • And then there's that whole Paul Bunyan, lumberjack look.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
  • Luke somehow manages to still look like a lumberjack, even while wearing a bow tie and a vest.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The 4-foot wooden trophy features the legendary lumberjack standing astride his ax and atop a map of the state.
    Scott Horner, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The trees are among a rare group that escaped the lumberjack's saw that felled most of Wisconsin’s forests in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Think of this as a real-life chain, similar to a chain that lumberjacks use to pull logs out of the woods made of metal/iron links.
    Wayne Bell, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Paul, always handsome, now with the look of a dashing coiffed black-Irish lumberjack.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Aaron must have been a lumberjack in his former life and no one can tell me different.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
  • My wife, Giulia, wasn’t there for the lumberjack Halloween.
    Mark Lukach, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • John Rich built the first mill in Woolrich in 1830 to supply wares like blankets and socks to farmers, traders, trappers and lumberjacks.
    Ruth Simon, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The Republicans will slip back across the border and buy a round for the lumberjacks in the dusty neighborhood saloon.
    oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019
  • Black and red checkered, like a classic lumberjack’s shirt or a hunter’s jacket.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The oversized top has generous length, too, and comes in more than 40 colors and patterns, from solid gray to red-and-black lumberjack plaid.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2024
  • One of Neubauer’s uncles, a lumberjack, was addicted to heroin for decades.
    C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024

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