How to Use laborer in a Sentence

laborer

noun

• 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
• For scale, a skilled laborer at the time earned 350 florins a year.
  — James Berman, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Naqvi said those who killed the laborers would not be able to escape from the grip of the law.
  — Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2024
• The 43-year-old laborer left a wife and three children.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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
• In the process, some lowly laborer spleens might get shrimpy too.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
• In 2023, home health and personal aides, cashiers and laborers ranked as some of the most common jobs across the state.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Michael Day has made a good life for himself as a laborer in the oil and gas industry.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2021
• At 68, my father went to work as a laborer earning $5 a day.
  — Jelena McWilliams, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
• 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
• His father, James, was a night watchman and laborer who died when Franklin was 11.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Davis' coat would have marked him as a laborer for the Ridgelys while projecting the family’s wealth and status to the world.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Sarah Varga, a 21-year-old laborer who lives in Janesville, introduced Biden at the event.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• And to hammer home the point, TikTok quoted a speed-watching laborer in his 20s in its slide deck.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022
• Most American laborers only want to work on the farm part-time — if at all.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
• For one, her dad was a laborer who helped build Glen Canyon Dam during her childhood.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Vitaly Sidorov, 47, a laborer who came out to see the parade, echoed the sentiment.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• 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
• This is a story all too real to the farm laborers and low-wage tourism workers who call this region home.
  — Silvia Paz, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• At a time when an unskilled laborer was earning around £2 per year, that was a pretty hefty sum.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• At Merced College, seven of the 23 students enrolled so far are farm laborers, according to a college spokesperson.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
• The hiring out of an enslaved laborer was also ubiquitous and profitable.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024