bricklaying
Americannoun
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Vagner is living in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil and doing bricklaying jobs that provide barely enough to get by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Yixander Diaz jettisoned both his ride and his work when the father of two, a taxi driver, turned to bricklaying.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
"We need you to get qualified and get more flats and houses up," she told two bricklaying apprentices, while not entirely convincing with her own trowel technique.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
“I feel like I’d rather do construction than history or something, because I want to be a bricklayer and hopefully by picking construction I’m able to do bricklaying when I’m older”, Leo said.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
If Grandma thought Dad was going to be a good helper, his new foreman thought he was the worst he had encountered in forty years, man and boy, of bricklaying.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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