How to Use roustabout in a Sentence

roustabout

noun

• The legacy: Doc Laborde started as a roustabout on an oil rig.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 16 May 2018
• As the afternoon grew warmer, the roustabouts (how often does one get to use that word?) raised the lower edges of the tents to let in some air.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2017
• A lawman who knew him described him as a little roustabout.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
• Her Big Maybelle-Etta James roustabouts find this classic form.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
• Billy Bigelow is one of theater’s most ambivalent characters, a roustabout who wants to turn his life around and do right by Julie but isn’t up to the task.
  — Orange County Register, 28 Mar. 2017
• The suspension, even with its rear torsion-beam setup, dips a shoulder to bite cleanly into corners and roustabout fun.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Well-paying jobs in oil and gas — drilling wells, managing roustabouts — are fast disappearing, as production in the state declines because of a slump in energy prices.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2017
• The Bowery reference made the area seem rather seedy and sordid, conjuring up images of barroom brawls, prostitution, roustabouts and gambling houses.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2019
• Still, travelers keep coming — motorcyclists, desert roustabouts, lost families.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• Other opportunities include administrative and executive assistants, accountants, truck drivers, crane operators, cyber security professionals, traditional floor hands and roustabouts, said Head.
  — Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018

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