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
  • 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
  • That's the highest number of U.N. workers killed in the history of the United Nations.
    CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Last month, workers at a Hyundai plant in Alabama also hit that milestone, the union said.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, these local film workers are waiting out the strikes.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The union also wants more time off for workers, including a four-day workweek.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The long duration of the strikes has hurt Hollywood workers, some of whom have struggled to make ends meet and have left the state in order to survive.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • It was built to provide housing for the major uptick in defense workers during WWII.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The best time to do this is in late fall after most worker wasps have died off or in early spring before nests become active.
    Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For the second time, case workers removed him from his parents, citing their neglect and his dire health.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough workers to pay taxes and fill jobs.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the workers were immigrants from Latin America, six of whom are confirmed or presumed to be dead.
    William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Libyan Red Crescent said three of its workers had died while helping families in Derna.
    Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Joan describes herself as a loving mother and a hard worker who would love to find someone with whom to enjoy life.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The 23-year-old cellphone shop worker survived on dirty drips of water and eventually lost hope that he'd be saved.
    Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023
  • For example, some workers have to fill in for employees who’ve left the company and not been replaced.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Beneath them, groups of rescue workers operating in teams of between six and 12 dig their way through the rubble.
    Stuart Ramsay, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In the case of the Writers Guild of America strike, which recently ended, many of the union members were contract workers or freelancers.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The two were frustrated with the need for better health plans available for workers and the high insurance premium prices.
    Chris Gallagher, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024

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