How to Use foreman in a Sentence

foreman

noun

• By the end of the day the foreman had gotten the message.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• There was a nice foreman there who came down to the gate.
  — Jason Diamond, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2022
• The next day, Williamson returned to the site with Veach and again told the D5 foreman to join the union.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2020
• The foreman found the phone in a Dumpster and opted to keep it.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 13 July 2018
• The foreman, the sole Black man on the panel, wept when the verdict was read.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
• Chris Dzierman, a bridge painter and foreman, looked to the west.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The foreman told the judge the jury couldn't get past the third of nine questions on the verdict form.
  — Nathan Fenno, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• The 27-year-old foreman held up the last remnants of a bottle of Don Julio.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• When the machines stopped, the foreman’s voice turned into a shout.
  — Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
• The foreman at Lynn’s ranch, Wayne Spears, also was killed.
  — Jonathan Mattise, Jeffrey Collins, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2021
• Don Walesky was the electrical sub-foreman on the L’Ambiance project.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
• Jones called up Alan Sparks, 64, the Wheat Ranch foreman, and asked for permission to try to catch the black bull.
  — Susan Carroll, NBC News, 22 July 2022
• Santos and his brothers weren’t far from work, and their foreman was on the way to pick them up.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• The foreman sent Faehn out to buy Bubble Wrap and boxes.
  — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Gibson is a foreman within the Bridge Unit and has worked for the county for 20 years.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2022
• The foreman said the vehicles would be moved when workers come down from the roof for lunch.
  — cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• The foreman was fined $5,000 and placed on five years’ probation.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• By the luck of the draw, I had been seated first on the jury and had thus been appointed foreman.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 4 June 2022
• Hines-Jones cleaned up alleys, then became a foreman and signed up to learn how to drive a truck.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
• If things got out of hand, a foreman would be called over to mediate.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• Loretta Lynn is mourning the death of her ranch foreman, Wayne Spears.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Stewart, 55, works as a road foreman and is a church deacon.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
• The foreman read the verdict—guilty of first degree murder.
  — Longreads, 26 June 2018
• The jury foreman, Bernard Cody, rose to announce the verdict.
  — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Witnesses and the foreman of the crew said the man appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
  — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2020
• The other eight counts came back mixed once the foreman tallied up the results on a whiteboard.
  — Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• As the guilty verdicts were read by the jury foreman, Ciminelli shook his head.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• If any issues arise, Wirth notes them on his iPad and sends a photo to the proper foreman.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2021
• The foreman and only Black man on the jury in the hate crimes trial of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.
  — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2022
• For example, based on Hays data, a construction foreman, a tradesperson in charge of a crew, could make over 60% more in Sydney than in Auckland.
  — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024