millwrights
- plural of millwright.
Example Sentences
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Building an electricity plant powered by fossil fuels usually requires hundreds of electricians, pipe fitters, millwrights and boilermakers who typically earn more than $100,000 a year in wages and benefits when they are unionized.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
"I'm listening this year," he said, promising a final decision in 2019 as a small audience of millwrights looked on from the shop floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2018
“Skilled craftsmen” - the millwrights, electricians and those who keep the saws sharp - “make very competitive wages, and that’s all I can say about that,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
Unlike air-traffic controllers—or millwrights, or miners, or tool-and-die makers—they can’t be replaced without ruining the product, because they are the product.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2013
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
