Examples of dockworker in a Sentence
the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding.
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Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
The jobs reflected in the survey include dockworkers, stevedores, truck drivers, financing and administrative positions.
—Tom Hudson, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2025
By comparison with almost any other workers in Marseille, or in France for that matter, the dockworkers had a very comfortable situation.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025
That has resulted in dwindling job opportunities at the port, which along with the neighboring Port of Long Beach — the largest port complex in the country — provide jobs for thousands of dockworkers, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
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Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
The jobs reflected in the survey include dockworkers, stevedores, truck drivers, financing and administrative positions.
—Tom Hudson, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2025
By comparison with almost any other workers in Marseille, or in France for that matter, the dockworkers had a very comfortable situation.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025
That has resulted in dwindling job opportunities at the port, which along with the neighboring Port of Long Beach — the largest port complex in the country — provide jobs for thousands of dockworkers, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dockworker. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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dockworker
noun
dock·work·er
-ˌwər-kər 
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