How to Use laborer in a Sentence

laborer

noun

• He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
• Lay had been able to land a job as a laborer cleaning up after workmen in a few of the state's 18 missile silos.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
• For the rest of his life, Dinning supported his family as a teamster and laborer.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• His father served a term in debtors’ prison, and Charles worked as a child laborer in a London boot-blacking factory.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The government also wants to greatly reduce the number of low-skilled laborers moving to Sweden.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024
• The family of Imtiaz Jalbani, a laborer, has suffered as much as any from this outbreak.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• His father, Adolfo, had been born in Puerto Rico and became a salesman and a laborer.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• My grandfather worked as a laborer during his upbringing in Mississippi.
  — Cedrick Frazier, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• In recent years, Leach had grown into a funny, loyal father of two children and worked as a laborer installing pools, but was out of work because of the pandemic, Zona said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Bilaal Muhammed, 54, once a janitor and construction laborer, has been unemployed since the onset of the pandemic.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• His father, James, was a night watchman and laborer who died when Franklin was 11.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sarah Varga, a 21-year-old laborer who lives in Janesville, introduced Biden at the event.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• His father, Frank Sr., was a house painter and later a laborer at Columbia Pictures.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• The current contract under which laborers are working is set to expire Monday.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024