How to Use worker in a Sentence

worker

noun
  • If management doesn't make the changes, the workers will go on strike.
  • They are both hard workers.
  • The company is planning to hire 200 workers.
  • The average worker earned $1,000 more this year.
  • On the ride over, one co-worker passed around a bald cap.
    Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And Gen Z workers don’t tend to stay in the same jobs for too long.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • When the worker asked the man to leave, he was assaulted.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Two of the workers are dead; four are still missing and presumed dead.
    Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Just the guy who owns the company, or does the worker benefit?
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The union had spoken about getting the support of 70% of the workers before filing for a vote.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For many, hourly pay falls below that of some baristas and fast-food workers.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Scott Gallegos likened the smell to the one fast-food workers constantly have to wash out of their clothes.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Some are finding a haven in Japan, where most workers have returned to the office and banks are eager to lend.
    Sylvan Lebrun, WSJ, 25 July 2023
  • The former co-worker pointed to Jane Roberts work as a recruiter.
    ABC News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That's the highest number of U.N. workers killed in the history of the United Nations.
    CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • For starters, look to Japan, where workers receive about the same vacation days a year but tend to take just about all of them.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2024
  • And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • Kiel Strong and Holly Barchie rise by 4:30 to have breakfast, pack lunch, and walk to the entrance of the camp ground where Kiel is picked by his co-worker.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • One group that is not covered by the raises is pilots, one of the only group of workers that belong to a union.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • All the while, Nasir’s loyal best friend Shafique (Shashank Arora), a wannabe actor and mill worker, sticks by his side.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
  • ChatGPT has given rise to a new class of worker: the overemployed.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Brookhart has a co-worker, a veteran, who told her that the folks on her base depended on those thrift stores.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The fund holds investments for public worker retirees in the state.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Is the 5xer getting paid 3.5 times the average worker with the same title—not likely.
    Jeffrey H. Margolis, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Last month, workers at a Hyundai plant in Alabama also hit that milestone, the union said.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • As McCall can attest, riding out the hard times was no fun at all for him and his fellow workers.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Unions last year secured $25 an hour for healthcare workers and $20 an hour for fast-food workers.
    Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
  • Instead, these local film workers are waiting out the strikes.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The worker who died, with a single gunshot wound to the chest, was Jamil I. Owais, a 26-year-old Palestinian immigrant and a new father.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The same is true for tuition assistance programs, especially for younger Gen Z workers.
    Byemma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

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