How to Use cabinetmaker in a Sentence

cabinetmaker

noun
  • For years, Christian Bozarth thought Carl the cabinetmaker was his dad.
    Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, the saloon’s ebony and oak floors—built by the queen’s cabinetmaker—lay in pieces in the attic like a jigsaw puzzle.
    Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, there was just the cabinetmaker, heading away from the train.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This was after the cabinetmaker went to a nursing home and his furniture went away, too.
    Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The plan is to bring jobs back to the area by filling the space with cabinetmakers, small bakers, or similar craft businesses.
    Howard Schneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2018
  • The cabinetmaker from William’s shop peered into her car.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The cabinetmaker, who smoked a pipe, supplied me with matches.
    Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2020
  • William, who had become a skilled cabinetmaker while he was enslaved, resumed his trade as a free man, while Ellen became a seamstress.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Our local cabinetmaker designed these for us, and my brother made the metal supports beneath the wood.
    Cassie Condrey, Southern Living, 24 June 2021
  • In her early 20s, Craft married an enslaved man, William Craft, a skilled cabinetmaker.
    Mark Whitaker, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Her cabinetmaker randomized the width of the joints between shiplap panels to create an offset look.
    Jennifer Kopf, Country Living, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The cabinetmakers here were mostly Quakers, so the proportions and scale have an unembellished strength that speaks to you in a different way than a fancy New York side chair would.
    Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 5 Feb. 2015
  • Concord Museum curator David Wood says the desk was made in 1838 by a cabinetmaker who charged Thoreau about a dollar.
    The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2017
  • Maddox, an artist and cabinetmaker in Medford, Oregon, started playing with pulse jets eight years ago.
    Keith Barry, WIRED, 2 June 2009
  • The cabinetmaker who had already posted on his door, coffins, reduced prices, has added something splendid: blinds repaired.
    Jean Giono, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • We were told by the cabinetmaker that the company that manufactured this material has gone out of business, and nothing can be done.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2021
  • His father, who is retired, was a cabinetmaker in Bridgeport, Conn.
    Anna Greenberg, New York Times, 28 May 2017
  • Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was popularized by the renowned French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle to such an extent that the term boulle work was often used to describe its elegant effect.
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The original doll house was made by a cabinetmaker in France, and is currently on display in room 2.20 of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 10 Sep. 2018
  • His father was a cabinetmaker, and his mother sewed children’s dresses.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • To accommodate his climbing passion, Robertson has worked most of his life as a woodworker, cabinetmaker and builder.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2021
  • She was kicked out of her family home and worked in a factory before marrying a cabinetmaker and having seven more children.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In 1859, German cabinetmaker Michael Thonet created what would come to be the quintessential restaurant chair.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 2023
  • My father, a skilled cabinetmaker, had no loftier goal than making furniture that was both beautiful and useful.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Her mother was a homemaker, and her father was a cabinetmaker and craftsman who made religious objects for Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • McKeown, a North Portland cabinetmaker by profession, typically umpires three or four games a week and a couple on Saturday, all of which adds up to nearly 150 games a season.
    oregonlive, 19 July 2021
  • About an hour’s ride from the headquarters, in an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Padova, is De Santi, the small woodworking facility that has been Sonus’ cabinetmaker from the beginning.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Her father, in addition to his civil service job, supported his children as a cabinetmaker.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
  • His father, Aniello, was a cabinetmaker, and his mother, Carmela (Iovino) Pintauro, was a homemaker.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • Joe is a former carpenter and cabinetmaker who writes extensively about remodeling, woodworking, and tool techniques.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023

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