How to Use millwright in a Sentence

millwright

noun

• Butch, a millwright by trade, used his resources to his advantage when transforming the bus.
  — Rachel Keck, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• His father was a millwright maintaining machines in a plywood mill and in the forest then did other jobs.
  — Andrew Selsky, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• Husband was a former millwright and past business agent for the Carpenters Union.
  — courier-journal.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• His grandfather was a Kentucky strip miner, his father a millwright at Wonder Bread.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• Gone are the specialized millwrights and boiler operators.
  — David Wagman, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2017
• At 14, she was adopted by her grandmother, who found a summer carpenters’ boot camp, which led her on the pathway to becoming a millwright.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
• One of those is Clayton Jackson, 59, a millwright who works overnights repairing machinery.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2020
• Prior to his retirement, Vin was employed as a millwright with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
  — courant.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Her husband, a factory millwright, was deemed an essential worker and has had steady employment throughout the crisis, a huge help to the family budget.
  — Author: Heather Long, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2020
• To remove water from the site, a millwright constructed a large wheel, so that three or four men walking abreast could provide the power to move a chain of buckets that bailed out the pit using a trough leading to a low-lying area of the farm.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
• Members of the unions representing laborers, plumbers, carpenters, millwrights, operating engineers and electricians locals also are working to bring the ice castle to life.
  — Scott Takushi, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2017
• Skilled craftsmen are even tougher to locate, especially millwrights, pipelayers, heavy equipment operators, truck drivers, concrete workers, carpenters and bricklayers.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Among positions harder to fill than a year ago were millwrights, carpenters, pipefitters and welders, laborers, truck drivers, pipelayers, iron workers, painters, concrete workers, heavy equipment operators and mechanics.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Control-room operators and millwrights will need new training on hydrogen safety and new sensor suites; chemists must monitor oxygen-extraction with H₂ instead of carbon; and automation teams must coordinate the reformers, recycle loops, and smelters.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
• Union protesters claim that the company lacks experience with projects the scale of Sites Reservoir and that the Nor Cal Carpenters Union — which includes a number of carpentry, piledriving and millwright trades — and other labor groups have not been involved in labor negotiations.
  — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 17 Jan. 2026