How to Use stevedore in a Sentence

stevedore

noun

• Simón quickly finds work as a stevedore, hauling sacks of grain.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• In Panama City, Josh West, a 39-year-old stevedore, rode out the hurricane at his home with his roommate and daughter.
  — Jon Kamp and Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• Mavrinac pushed back, saying the stevedore usually hands a handwritten plan to the crew, and that the crew uses that to account for the cargo present.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• It was supposed to be a short visit with her father, Kweku, who was living in Rockville, Md., working as a stevedore.
  — Richard Demak, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Nostalgia for the days when the waterfront of Hoboken, N.J., teemed with stevedores and tugboat crews is apparently a thing of the past.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• The gist of the muckraking editorial was that Teddy was a drunk who also swore like a stevedore.
  — Mark Will-Weber, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2017
• When Jackson was 6, her mother died, leaving her to be raised by her father, a preacher on Sundays who worked as a stevedore and a barber during the week.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The Hellfighters, formally known as the 369th Infantry, began as cooks and stevedores for the French, but moved to the front to fight, often with valor, as French forces were depleted.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
• Crispus Attucks, a former slave, and stevedore of whose father was African and whose mother Native American.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Five days earlier, stevedores in Brooklyn had finished loading her with a staggering 6 million pounds of high explosives, 13 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
• These days, those vacancies increasingly mean jobs for software professionals, not stevedores or steel workers, the working-class aristocracy that once reigned along the banks of the Ruhr.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• By extension, the book is teeming with those who earn their living on the water: sailors, stevedores, lobstermen, shipbuilders and that particular maritime specialist prized by the underworld, the boatman who sinks bodies to the bottom of the sea.
  — Amor Towles, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• At the time, Zemo served as the general manager of port operations for a private company running a terminal and providing stevedore services at the Port of New Orleans.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• In O'Neill's 1921 treatise on masculinity and the divide between the rich and the poor, Yank, a stevedore who prides himself on his physical prowess, runs headlong into the brutal sophistication of high society Manhattan.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Normandy’s Negroes, serving in mostly segregated units, worked under fire instead as stevedores and as antiaircraft men who ran up barrage balloons to frustrate enemy air strikes at the beaches.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 5 June 2019
• Simón quickly finds work as a stevedore, hauling sacks of grain.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• In Panama City, Josh West, a 39-year-old stevedore, rode out the hurricane at his home with his roommate and daughter.
  — Jon Kamp and Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• Mavrinac pushed back, saying the stevedore usually hands a handwritten plan to the crew, and that the crew uses that to account for the cargo present.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• It was supposed to be a short visit with her father, Kweku, who was living in Rockville, Md., working as a stevedore.
  — Richard Demak, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Nostalgia for the days when the waterfront of Hoboken, N.J., teemed with stevedores and tugboat crews is apparently a thing of the past.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• The gist of the muckraking editorial was that Teddy was a drunk who also swore like a stevedore.
  — Mark Will-Weber, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2017
• When Jackson was 6, her mother died, leaving her to be raised by her father, a preacher on Sundays who worked as a stevedore and a barber during the week.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The Hellfighters, formally known as the 369th Infantry, began as cooks and stevedores for the French, but moved to the front to fight, often with valor, as French forces were depleted.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
• Crispus Attucks, a former slave, and stevedore of whose father was African and whose mother Native American.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Five days earlier, stevedores in Brooklyn had finished loading her with a staggering 6 million pounds of high explosives, 13 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
• These days, those vacancies increasingly mean jobs for software professionals, not stevedores or steel workers, the working-class aristocracy that once reigned along the banks of the Ruhr.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018

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