Examples of stevedore in a Sentence

Noun on the wharves, stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun More like San Pedro, with a working man, a stevedore — Boston College guard Zion Johnson. — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022 By his twentieth birthday, having discovered that he wasn’t cut out for the back-breaking life of a longshoreman or stevedore, P.J. tried his hand as a brass finisher at an East Boston machine shop. — Neal Thompson, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022 Drafted into the Army in 1943 at age 19, he was deployed to Europe as a stevedore in an all-Black unit. — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022 Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action. — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021 Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight. — New York Times, 24 June 2021 Weeksville is an extraordinary museum in central Brooklyn dedicated to the history of the free Black community that was founded there in 1838, when a Black stevedore named James Weeks first purchased the property. — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021 Mavrinac pushed back, saying the stevedore usually hands a handwritten plan to the crew, and that the crew uses that to account for the cargo present. — Natasha Chen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020 Simón quickly finds work as a stevedore, hauling sacks of grain. — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020 See More

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