How to Use longshoreman in a Sentence

longshoreman

noun

• Inscho, 36, is a longshoreman and the mother of two, ages 9 and 6.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021
• Around the same time, his childhood friend and fellow longshoreman, Windell B. La Cour, died from the virus.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Jess' hands are rough and callused — more like a longshoreman's than that of a high school junior.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2022
• The eye-opener appears to be designed with a longshoreman or heavy drinker in mind.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• The daughter of a longshoreman and a stay-at-home mother, Hardesty grew up with nine siblings in the city where her mom was raised.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2020
• As global trade has soared, the few longshoremen who remain have seen their paychecks grow.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• My one white student was a man in his early 60s, William*, a former longshoreman.
  — Robyn McGee, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2020
• That's fitting for the son of a Baltimore longshoreman.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2022
• Others were guided by leftist theater troupes and union longshoremen from the Port of Barcelona.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2017
• The last of seven siblings, her father was a longshoreman and her mother was a seamstress.
  — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2017
• The longshoreman said the loading process went smoothly and nothing seemed out of the ordinary during the loading process.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
• The building where the Flat Iron stands at 1114 Center St. was once home to a blacksmith shop on its first floor and served as lodging for sailors and longshoreman on its second.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• A noose was found at the Port of Oakland — the second such incident there in two weeks — prompting a brief walkout from longshoremen.
  — Colleen Shalby, latimes.com, 20 June 2017
• His father was a longshoreman who liked to play Hawaiian steel guitar.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• By the onset of the Great Depression, his father had failed as a trolley-driver and longshoreman.
  — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2017
• Her brother, Frank Saldana, is the Carson High football coach and a longshoreman.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• The mere threat of a strike won longshoremen, UPS drivers, and other blue-collar workers big pay raises.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
• His longshoreman father, John Collins, was unable to care for his three children and sent them to live in orphanages.
  — Libby Copeland, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2017
• Moses Bermudez, who works as a longshoreman in Los Angeles, was in California at the time of the attack, his sister has said.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
• Gerard Jordan, a longshoreman and teammate in that league, recalled a hit that split open Mike’s forehead.
  — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• Within days, Cocker, 28, left behind his job as a longshoreman and his wife and three children to fly with his unit to Washington.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
• Zippo) in a cavernous space that served mill workers and longshoremen by the hundreds in the early 20th century.
  — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• The bar was a hookup spot, and the backgrounds of its patrons were diverse — doctors, lawyers, longshoremen, hustlers, husbands, fathers.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2018
• The building, which dates to 1925, began as a place for the area’s longshoremen, truckers and laborers to get a beer and something inexpensive to eat.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• The top wage for senior longshoremen working auto operations is $32 a hour; the base is $20.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 May 2018
• Drawn-out labor talks with longshoremen that lasted more than a year prompted some companies to divert cargo to the East and Gulf Coast ports.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Each longshoreman usually moves between three and six cars an hour.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 May 2018
• Last week, the port’s longshoremen’s union was threatening to walk off the job due to issues surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• Organizers also said longshoremen will walk off the job, shutting down the Port of Oakland.
  — Tatiana Sanchez, The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2017
• His father was a longshoreman, his mother a New York City employee.
  — Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024