How to Use millwright in a Sentence

millwright

noun

• His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a millwright who took Mr. Billings for his first flight as a third birthday present.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• Butch, a millwright by trade, used his resources to his advantage when transforming the bus.
  — Rachel Keck, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Husband was a former millwright and past business agent for the Carpenters Union.
  — courier-journal.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Prior to his retirement, Vin was employed as a millwright with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
  — courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Joel worked 37 yrs. at Rogers Corporation as a millwright and machinist.
  — courant.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• 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
• One of those is Clayton Jackson, 59, a millwright who works overnights repairing machinery.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024