How to Use millwright in a Sentence
millwright
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Butch, a millwright by trade, used his resources to his advantage when transforming the bus.
—Rachel Keck, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
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Husband was a former millwright and past business agent for the Carpenters Union.
—courier-journal.com, 12 Sep. 2019
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His father was a millwright maintaining machines in a plywood mill and in the forest then did other jobs.
—Andrew Selsky, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
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Prior to his retirement, Vin was employed as a millwright with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
—courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
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Joel worked 37 yrs. at Rogers Corporation as a millwright and machinist.
—courant.com, 13 Oct. 2019
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His grandfather was a Kentucky strip miner, his father a millwright at Wonder Bread.
—Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
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One of those is Clayton Jackson, 59, a millwright who works overnights repairing machinery.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2020
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To remove water from the site, a millwright constructed a large wheel, so that three or four men walking abreast could provide the power to move a chain of buckets that bailed out the pit using a trough leading to a low-lying area of the farm.
—Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
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Her husband, a factory millwright, was deemed an essential worker and has had steady employment throughout the crisis, a huge help to the family budget.
—Author: Heather Long, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2020
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Members of the unions representing laborers, plumbers, carpenters, millwrights, operating engineers and electricians locals also are working to bring the ice castle to life.
—Scott Takushi, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2017
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Among positions harder to fill than a year ago were millwrights, carpenters, pipefitters and welders, laborers, truck drivers, pipelayers, iron workers, painters, concrete workers, heavy equipment operators and mechanics.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2019
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Skilled craftsmen are even tougher to locate, especially millwrights, pipelayers, heavy equipment operators, truck drivers, concrete workers, carpenters and bricklayers.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
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