Examples of day laborer in a Sentence
They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
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Few sites, however, became such frequent battlegrounds as the parking lots of Home Depots, where day laborers congregate, or were hit as persistently and severely as the open air car washes that dot sunny Southern California.
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Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
The Los Angeles region was rocked last year by sprawling immigration raids targeting day laborers and factory workers.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Natalie’s husband, Caleb, is the youngest son of a senator and a terrible farmer whose failures on their Idaho land have to be propped up by day laborers, secret barrels of pesticides, and Natalie’s social-media income.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
Protesters are demanding that the hardware store chain protect day laborers against future arrests and deportations after last year's uptick in immigration enforcement operations, some of which happened outside of Home Depot locations in Southern California.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 May 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
The Los Angeles region was rocked last year by sprawling immigration raids targeting day laborers and factory workers.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Natalie’s husband, Caleb, is the youngest son of a senator and a terrible farmer whose failures on their Idaho land have to be propped up by day laborers, secret barrels of pesticides, and Natalie’s social-media income.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
Protesters are demanding that the hardware store chain protect day laborers against future arrests and deportations after last year's uptick in immigration enforcement operations, some of which happened outside of Home Depot locations in Southern California.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 May 2026
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“Day laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20laborer. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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