draftsman

How to use draftsman in a sentence

• In December 1731, an architect’s draftsman named Gonichon created a map considered the most accurate representation of New Orleans a decade after the engineer Pauger began clearing brush to build a capital.

  Deported From France as Convicts, These Women Helped Build New Orleans | Joan DeJean | April 26, 2022 | Time

• Remarkably, one of the people we interviewed back in 2011, a carpenter and draftsman who suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is among those who remain on the hook for his student loans.

  Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers Was 10 Years in the Making | by Stephen Engelberg | September 8, 2021 | ProPublica

• Erick Adams, a 54-year-old architectural draftsman, had arrived 15 minutes early.

  Date Lab: They were so instantly comfortable that our photographer asked if they had met before | Damona Hoffman | June 17, 2021 | Washington Post

• The talented draftsman started off drawing cartoons for Hugh Hefner’s magazine in the 1950s, and later lived with him in his infamous party pad, where he wrote many of his beloved children’s books.

  12 Crazy True Stories About Children’s Authors | Kate Bartlett | April 1, 2021 | Ozy

• Jacobsen joined Johnson in his Connecticut office immediately after graduation but was fired within a year because of his poor skills as a draftsman.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen, award-winning modernist architect, dies at 91 | Kathy Orton | March 4, 2021 | Washington Post