How to Use day laborer in a Sentence

day laborer

noun

• They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
• The film’s three dark night take in a first, where the wedding of two Haitian day laborers ends with the groom’s death.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• But the day laborers told NBC4 the contents felt soft and soggy, like meat.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Brown had spent 21 years in the Navy and had most recently worked as a day laborer.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
• This season, Lane has been able to find work as a day laborer felling trees.
  — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• This time of the year is stressful for Guerra, a 42-year-old day laborer from Guatemala.
  — Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Two Haitian day laborers’ wedding ends with the groom’s death.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
• Tucker pays day laborers ten bucks an hour, and the structure is built in two days.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The women and children beg for money, the men get odd jobs as day laborers.
  — Muneeza Naqvi, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• So 21 years ago, Mr. Jones was here working as a day laborer.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2022
• The attack took place in a busy Baghdad square where day laborers gather to look for work.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• In a video last month, from Nasiriyah, a group of day laborers screamed into the camera as fires burned behind them.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2020
• As a day laborer who was making $10 a week, Thomas didn’t have much money.
  — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 29 Oct. 2021
• The men, who worked as day laborers, tried to lodge a report at the front desk of a Valley police station but were told to call 911.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• The square is a major way station for commuters and a place where day laborers gather in the hopes of picking up work.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Five of the six people killed were Hindus, a mix of day laborers who appeared to be caught in the violence and members of the right-wing group.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Zoila fell fast for the soft-spoken day laborer, moving in with him last year just two weeks after their first date.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
• In the drug world, this was a modest step up — from day laborer to shift supervisor.
  — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Gaza day laborers stranded in the West Bank sleep in a sports hall and check their phones for messages from their families.
  — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• There was a day laborer who had organized men like him.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• Most of the residents here are day laborers, and time off work often means lost income.
  — Jeffrey Okoro, STAT, 24 Nov. 2023
• Her husband, a day laborer, suffered heatstroke this year, missing a week’s work — and a week’s pay.
  — Somini Sengupta, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
• When Lula was a young child, his father set off for São Paulo, in pursuit of a more stable livelihood, and found work as a day laborer.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• On the first occasion, a group of day laborers told them they had been asked to remove suspicious bags that felt heavy and soggy.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
• But the day laborer from west of Boynton Beach didn’t get far, as other crew members caught and held him until deputies arrived.
  — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• There’s the gig economy, and then there’s a homeless day laborer being asked to play Adolf Hitler in a Holocaust drama.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• Officials say Brown, who spent 21 years in the Navy, worked as a day laborer and helped in the construction of the Blimpie restaurant where Billie worked this past summer.
  — Wbtv, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
• Then, suddenly, a speeding bus filled with day laborers barreled through the crash site.
  — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• The day laborers behind the Vultures stage One (lone) highlight from the ¥$ experience?
  — Reanna Cruz, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
• The men are day laborers during the high season, making a living landscaping, cleaning pools and maintaining tennis courts.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024