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.
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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 -
Ben is best friends with Corey, his co-worker at the diner.
— Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Two of the workers are dead; four are still missing and presumed dead.
— Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024 -
Joshua, Demitri said, was a hard worker who just to be happy.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
So your co-worker was rude to you or someone cut you off in traffic.
— Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022 -
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 -
That will come as a bitter blow to the workers affected.
— The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024 -
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 week, tens of thousands of workers at Volkswagen, Germany’s largest manufacturer, took part in strikes at plants across the country.
— Anna Cooban, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 -
That means going beyond the transactional nature of any relationship—boss to worker, supplier to customer—and getting to the heart of what makes an audience tick.
— Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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