How to Use laborer in a Sentence
laborer
noun- He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
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Thank you to all the laborers that worked very hard to host my team.
— Claire Stern, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023 -
For scale, a skilled laborer at the time earned 350 florins a year.
— James Berman, Forbes, 7 July 2021 -
Naqvi said those who killed the laborers would not be able to escape from the grip of the law.
— Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023 -
At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
— Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2024 -
The 43-year-old laborer left a wife and three children.
— Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021 -
The city is wealthy, and slave laborers from the empire have taken over the menial work.
— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023 -
At the time of the 1885 purge, Moon worked as a cook and manual laborer on a ranch on Redwood Creek.
— oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022 -
In the process, some lowly laborer spleens might get shrimpy too.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022 -
In 2023, home health and personal aides, cashiers and laborers ranked as some of the most common jobs across the state.
— Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Kelly met a laborer named Lawrence Weeks at a speakeasy on Waller Street.
— Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020 -
New Garden used to be open from 5 p.m. to the wee hours of the morning to serve the laborers who worked in the produce district and on the railroad.
— Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024 -
Within a few weeks of the dense fog's arrival, many of the laborers grow tired and develop headaches and fevers.
— Ashli Blow, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Michael Day has made a good life for himself as a laborer in the oil and gas industry.
— Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2021 -
At 68, my father went to work as a laborer earning $5 a day.
— Jelena McWilliams, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021 -
His 23-year-old boy, a laborer, was traveling to the city of Chennai for his job, like many others in the coach with him.
— Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 June 2023 -
Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
— cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021 -
Her father was a laborer and, by the 1950s, was working as a bottler in a brewery.
— Penelope Green, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023 -
Thousands of laborers spent years creating the reservoir, the lake, the rolling hills.
— James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 -
His father, James, was a night watchman and laborer who died when Franklin was 11.
— New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021 -
Davis' coat would have marked him as a laborer for the Ridgelys while projecting the family’s wealth and status to the world.
— Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020 -
Sarah Varga, a 21-year-old laborer who lives in Janesville, introduced Biden at the event.
— Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023 -
And to hammer home the point, TikTok quoted a speed-watching laborer in his 20s in its slide deck.
— Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Most American laborers only want to work on the farm part-time — if at all.
— Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024 -
For one, her dad was a laborer who helped build Glen Canyon Dam during her childhood.
— AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2022 -
Vitaly Sidorov, 47, a laborer who came out to see the parade, echoed the sentiment.
— Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 9 May 2022 -
Early in the war, a Tigrayan youth militia in a town called Mai Kadra killed hundreds of mostly Amhara laborers.
— Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023 -
But both of these laborers brush up against something transcendent, even if only briefly.
— Edward Hirsch, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024 -
These projects, which began in earnest in 2017, have caused a large influx of laborers from south Asian countries, with migrants from India, Bangladesh and Nepal being the largest contributors.
— Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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