How to Use laborer in a Sentence

laborer

noun

• He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
• 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 father, James, was a night watchman and laborer who died when Franklin was 11.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Mathews, 75, is a laborer who has always used his hands: in the kitchen, on a car engine, at his computer.
  — Alex Norcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Of all the laborers critical to the smooth flow of goods around the planet, unionized dockworkers find themselves among those with the most power and best pay.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
• Her mother was a domestic and a cook who later ran a boardinghouse, and her father, a former laborer, was a rent collector.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• People who spend long periods of time outside or are physically active, such as outdoor laborers and athletes, are most at risk.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2024
• Michael Wayne Jackson, a 62-year-old laborer who lived with his brother in Sunnyside, was pronounced dead on scene.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Dec. 2021
• For the next year and a half, Evan worked as a laborer, building apartments in Wisconsin and traveling back to Minnesota for monthly drills.
  — James Swetlik, jsonline.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Walker worked as a janitor, laborer and security guard, according to a probation report.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• And workers’ compensation attorneys say lodging a claim is no guarantee that laborers will get aid quickly, even for a disease roundly recognized as stemming from work.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
• Thank you to all the laborers that worked very hard to host my team.
  — Claire Stern, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
• The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As early as 1719, slave traders in the port city sold Africans kidnapped from their homes as enslaved laborers.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• This is a story all too real to the farm laborers and low-wage tourism workers who call this region home.
  — Silvia Paz, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• At a time when an unskilled laborer was earning around £2 per year, that was a pretty hefty sum.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024