How to Use laborer in a Sentence

laborer

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  • He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the street, skilled laborers repaired bikes and made furniture.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • There, under the soft light of the moon above, villagers opened the coffin of the laborer, Rakesh Kumar Yadav, with pliers and axes.
    — Bhadra Sharma Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • One of the laborers opened a bag that contained body parts, authorities claim.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • For years, the buildup was marked by criticism of the tiny gas-rich state’s treatment of the millions of migrant laborers required to remake the country ahead of the World Cup.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Working in the Heat More than 1,000 migrant laborers are busy in the searing heat building the first phase of the Oman government’s Yiti project.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • Catholic priests who relied on enslaved laborers and slave sales built the underpinnings of the Catholic Church.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • The truck routinely drives near farmworkers on the field, picking up crates of carrots as the laborers move down the field, workers said.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Both sides pressed tens of thousands of African migrant laborers to do the harrowing work of mining.
    — Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • The fear was that as older workers retired, there wasn’t a new generation of laborer stepping up to learn the trades.
    — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2022
  • But once the plantations began using enslaved laborers to mass-produce the crops, the increase in supply caused the price to fall.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Settling in his birthplace of San Francisco, Wong worked as a laborer and cook.
    — Hardeep Dhillon, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The laborers allegedly found human body parts in the bags, returned the bags and then notified police.
    — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Beyond the farms themselves, farm laborers will continue to lose work and wages as long as the fields, orchards and dairies are under water.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • During the chaos, hundreds of enslaved laborers fled into the gunboats.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Waring’s family used enslaved laborers to build a three-and-a-half story house that still stands in the middle of downtown.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
  • What brought these people all to one place in Baltimore Harbor — the Dali’s crew, the bridge laborers and the officers now hailed as heroes — were weeks and days and hours of routine.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The influx of large numbers of Chinese laborers to work on projects funded by Chinese loans has triggered protests.
    — Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Immigrant laborers largely from Nepal, not far from where Sheikh was born.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And how about unions that represent laborers who work outdoors?
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 12 July 2023

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