How to Use bricklayer in a Sentence

bricklayer

noun

• Bonomo's dad was a bricklayer who also took his son to the track.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 17 May 2017
• Their mother sold food in the streets, while their father was a bricklayer.
  — Julie Turkewitz Victor Moriyama, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• My dad was a bricklayer in the 70's and sometimes there was no work for him.
  — Marcia Pledger, cleveland.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Her father was a bricklayer, and her mother was a house cleaner and worked at a pub.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• His father was a bricklayer, and for a time Cooper was one too.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
• His father was a bricklayer, but Lahey wasn’t cut out for the trade.
  — Alison Kuznitz, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• Her father, a bricklayer, was tasked with dropping them off instead.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The bricklayer bought land in western Guyana last month and is now saving to build his first home and buy a new car.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• Her father was a bricklayer, her mother a house cleaner and barmaid.
  — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Seen from afar by people who were not aware of what was being made, these men and women must surely have looked like bricklayers gone mad.
  — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Not long ago, the boxy, brick-nosed pickup might have drawn the interest of a bricklayer or a roofer looking for a cheap work truck.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• The apprentice bricklayer phoned a friend shortly after to tell her he was lost, thirsty and that his phone was low on battery.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 25 June 2024
• These three women are the bricklayers to the foundation that holds hip-hop together.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
• His mother earned some money in a tobacco shop, while his father eked out a living as a bricklayer.
  — Andrew Marton, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• The son of a Perth bricklayer, Rowe’s fortune is self-made, like those of many of the vessel’s owners.
  — Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017
• Think like a bricklayer, spacing bricks a few inches apart, then stacking the next layer with a brick straddling two bricks below.
  — Sally Walker Davies, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2014
• Roebuck worked as a bricklayer, in a steel mill, and in a vast and fragrant slaughterhouse that was known in town as the House of Blood.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Naveed Akram had worked as a bricklayer, while Sajid ran a fruit shop, according to local media reports.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
• Three of Bruckner’s apprentice bricklayers worked on the wall.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
• The pilot was a red-bearded bricklayer from the Carpathian Mountains called Boyko.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• His father, a bricklayer, was killed in action during World War II.
  — Peter Keepnews, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• Jaime Martínez Miranda, 21, was a bricklayer who was close to his family.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• Including her with the carpenters, there is one woman among the electricians, one among the ironworkers, one among the bricklayers, and one among the painters.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
• The younger Akram was a recently unemployed bricklayer, the outlet reported.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
• Ciotti was born to a bricklayer and a stay-at-home mother in 1945, in the Belluno province, in a valley in the Dolomites.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Soloviev's father, Solow, was the son of a bricklayer who dropped out of New York University to go into real estate.
  — Patrick Clark, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The firm was able to use just two bricklayers instead of seven, cutting costs despite the $2,900 weekly rental fee for SAM.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• The younger Robinson worked as a teacher and bricklayer, among other jobs, before joining Scholastic in the mid-1960s.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 7 June 2021
• Bob Brady is a vestige of the days when Democrats were aligned with the disenfranchised, the beat cop, the trash guy, the burly Irish bricklayer, and the Italian grandma in a house dress.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• That's equivalent to the speed of more than 100 bricklayers working simultaneously.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025