How to Use dockworker in a Sentence

dockworker

noun

• Tens of thousands of dockworkers went on strike Tuesday, snarling dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
  — Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
  — Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• Unlucky Louie says if his ship ever comes in, the dockworkers will be on strike or the dock will have rotted.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The world’s gotten a lot more dangerous in the last few days as the dockworkers’ strike threatens to hike the likes of grocery prices and the Mideast teeters on the brink of widespread warfare.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
• Last July, West Coast port dockworkers went on strike for two weeks before a four-year contract was reached.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
• The young volunteers were a cross section of the colony of Maryland: wealthy merchants’ sons, dockworkers, school kids and free and enslaved black youth.
  — Time, 4 July 2019
• Su traveled to the West Coast and helped broker a deal between dockworkers and their employers.
  — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• And even if the port is able to receive ships, flooded roads and railroads could prevent dockworkers, trucks and trains from unloading them.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
• For six weeks, dockworkers at Swedish ports have refused to load or unload the electric cars made by billionaire Elon Musk.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Walking along the Baltimore wharf one day, Douglass stopped to help two Irish dockworkers unload a ship’s wares.
  — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
• Thousands of angry dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles.
  — Margot Roosevelt, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• The powerful dockworker unions, anxious at the prospect of foreign ownership, went on strike for six weeks.
  — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
• There are bars still frequented by dockworkers, and hipsters wear T-shirts emblazoned with the hulking white cranes that line the Port of Oakland.
  — Conor Dougherty and Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• His father was a dockworker and later ran a candy shop, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• Among the men who didn’t recognize his promise was the poet’s own father, a former dockworker with a hard demeanor.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
• Still, after a decade of recession and pain, Piraeus’s dockworkers sense the chance for growth—or, at least, stability.
  — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
• But the lunchtime crowd at Vinny’s Cafe, a popular Italian joint favored by dockworkers, is lighter than usual.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
• Videos circulated in the wake of the incident, which was sparked when dockworker Damien Pickett attempted to get a group to move their pontoon boat.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• West Coast dockworkers have been working without a contract since the last agreement expired in July.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• And to the screen, when a dockworker criticizing Jaskier’s songs becomes a mouthpiece for fans.
  — Dawn Burkes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• Sundet, who did not return phone messages seeking comment, started as a dockworker in the 1980s.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
• Thousands of dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf Coast will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages, ending one of the biggest work stoppages in decades.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Those who mostly relied on the river − the merchants, dockworkers and immigrants − all found home nearby in a neighborhood known as The Bottoms.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
• That agreement meant management could bring in new technologies without warning or input from the West Coast dockworkers who would use it or be replaced by it.
  — Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• But Jackson wouldn’t leave Georgia, instead joining a number of freedmen who stayed in the Savannah area and found jobs as porters, housekeepers, and dockworkers.
  — Essence, 18 June 2024
• When Wolff moved to Chelsea from Tennessee to chase a career in dance more than six decades ago, the neighborhood was largely Spanish-speaking, with single-room apartments for dockworkers.
  — Natalie Wong, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
• In June, thousands of dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles against the coming introduction of robotic machines threatening their jobs.
  — Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 26 July 2019
• By contrast, the 2022 termination of the dockworkers’ strike at Felixstowe, the U.K.’s busiest port, yielded no worker wage increases.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Her late husband’s ancestors—a Sicilian dockworker and his wife, a femme de couleur libre, according to Louisiana’s baroque racial-caste system—bought the land that the club sits on.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024