How to Use steelworker in a Sentence

steelworker

noun
  • At the moment, Davis shook the hand of Burgess as the camera focused on the steelworker.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The time for talk about standing up for our steelworkers has passed.
    Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Cruz said of the event in a meeting with steelworkers the following month.
    Andrea Drusch, star-telegram, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Same in much of the auto industry, and to be a steelworker.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The steelworker doesn’t want to risk sitting on his son’s bed and hugging him.
    Kris Maher, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Much of the action takes place at a bar where the steelworkers hang out; among them are Cynthia, who is black, and Tracey, who is white.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • His father was a steelworker and his mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The steelworker sat with his arms crossed, waiting to see what would happen.
    Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • As far as the steelworkers and retirees go, there is a sense of frustration.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
  • One of my final trips was to visit to a steel mill in Indiana to thank the steelworkers.
    A.j. Jacobs, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • One is the grandson of a steelworker who was also a union leader.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • His father was a steelworker and so was one of his grandfathers; the other worked in a coal mine.
    CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The content of the pictures was guided by the needs of the commission: to go to cities where mills were closing, and to photograph the mills, the cities, and the steelworkers.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Some steelworkers eat multiple meals a day at the grill.
    Samantha Bomkamp, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • The steelworkers union has been joined by members from the teachers, hotel, and postal workers unions in getting out the vote for Lamb.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Ohio steelworker doesn’t know who Pepe the Frog is and doesn’t think 9/11 was manipulated by the Israelis.
    Nate Hochman, National Review, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The other is the daughter of a steelworker father and a seamstress mother.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The former steelworker town about 90 minutes east of Pittsburgh is a distressed city with a low tax base.
    USA Today, 5 June 2019
  • Knocking on doors in the district recently, Ms. Green was met with a firm no from Randy Webb, a 27-year-old steelworker.
    Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
  • In the early days, steelworkers toiled in extreme heat, catching steel hot rods with cotton gloves and tongs.
    Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The former steelworker started with 250 shiitake logs and eight wine cap beds.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2018
  • The bombardment ends for the four steelworkers in the basement of a collapsed hotel during a 1940 blitz in Kieran Knowles’s play.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • His mother was a schoolteacher, his father a farmer and steelworker.
    Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Bob Koepka is the grandson of a Pittsburgh steelworker.
    Chuck Culpepper, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • Her stern steelworker father — who made the Colts practice squad — encouraged in her a love of sports and diehard work ethic.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
  • Few jobs have been as fetishized, as mythologized, and as misunderstood as that of the steelworker.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Trump had begun with a tribute to the steelworkers who built America.
    Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Jay Alfonso, a steelworker in Pittsburg, makes sure to wear a mask when going to work in the mill, but is worried about the long-term health effects of breathing in the smoke.
    Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Both the steel industry and steelworkers' unions decried the tariffs.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • His father, Acie, was a steelworker; his mother, Ellee (Williams) Cross, was a homemaker.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021

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