How to Use woodcutter in a Sentence

woodcutter

noun

• She was forced to work as a nursemaid, fieldhand, and woodcutter.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2021
• Her husband, a woodcutter, could make the equivalent of $4 a day.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Climbing food prices drained the 32-year-old woodcutter’s savings, and his family sold their truck.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
• As in a fairy tale, Omeir is born to a young widow in a woodcutter’s cottage in 15th-century Bulgaria.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
• A group of woodcutters had alerted authorities after spotting the girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
• Evergrande was founded in 1996 in Guangzhou by Xu Jiayin, who local media says grew up in a poor village as a woodcutter’s son.
  — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
• Down the row is woodcutter David Fortenberry who creates cutting boards, Lazy Susans and his most-popular product: the bow knife.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 5 Dec. 2020
• Farmers with oxen gather fruit and tend vineyards in one panel, and Dionysus and other gods help woodcutters chop down trees in another.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
• When their father, a woodcutter, abandons them in a forest, the first sets out in one direction to discover her purpose; the second chooses a different path to find adventure; and the third stays and makes a home.
  — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Know Your Chain Chainsaw chain travels around the bar at about 70 miles an hour, and professional woodcutters do everything possible to maintain a high cutting speed.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• Chainsaw chain travels around the bar at about 70 miles an hour, and professional woodcutters do everything possible to maintain a high cutting speed.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• Amateur woodcutters would do well to bring the saw and chain in for professional sharpening at the end of every woodcutting season, or after several years of use.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• His family had been woodcutters, and, for him, becoming a horticulturist was a kind of karmic reparation.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
• According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Its coat of arms features two woodcutters, one with light brown skin carrying an ax, the other darker skinned and holding an oar, who symbolize the country’s ethnic diversity, history of slavery and its mahogany industry.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2016
• Hamaguchi flaunts his quasi-documentarian sensibility in wordless scenes, too, including an extraordinary long take of a woodcutter at work which is among the cinematic thrills of the year.
  — The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• Oxmoor morphed into the dominant village in Shades Valley, employing 60 foundry men and hundreds of woodcutters and laborers, including, unfortunately, slaves.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018

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