Examples of dockworker in a Sentence

the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship

Recent Examples on the Web All of the defendants except for one dockworker submitted plea agreements. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022 The year after World War II ended, a 22-year-old dockworker named John Powe came home from overseas and headed to Birmingham to find a job that would support his growing family. — Shane Loeffler, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2022 His father was a dockworker and later ran a candy shop, and his mother was a homemaker. — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022 The Bandidos came along 18 years later in 1966, founded by a 36-year-old Houston dockworker and Vietnam War veteran named Donald Chambers. — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022 The dockworker absences are helping exacerbate a monthslong bottleneck. — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2022 And to the screen, when a dockworker criticizing Jaskier’s songs becomes a mouthpiece for fans. — Dawn Burkes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021 The average dockworker with more than five years’ full-time experience in 2019 earned almost $190,000. — Paul Berger, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2021 In August, China partially shut down the world’s third biggest container port for two weeks after a dockworker tested positive for Covid. — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021 See More

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