How to Use dockworker in a Sentence

dockworker

noun

• It was packed with the lunch crowd, maybe a hundred dockworkers jostling over trays.
  — EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
• There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
  — Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• Read on to learn about what dockworkers do and how new technologies are changing the job.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
• What do dockworkers do, and which parts of the job are automated?
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
• Unlucky Louie says if his ship ever comes in, the dockworkers will be on strike or the dock will have rotted.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The looming debt issue and potential for a dockworker strike could help explain the run in gold of late.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• This is good, because Jolyon isn’t even wearing a tie to the office and looks like a dockworker.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
• 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 powerful dockworker unions, anxious at the prospect of foreign ownership, went on strike for six weeks.
  — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
• Tens of thousands of dockworkers went on strike Tuesday, snarling dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Among the men who didn’t recognize his promise was the poet’s own father, a former dockworker with a hard demeanor.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
• Last July, West Coast port dockworkers went on strike for two weeks before a four-year contract was reached.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
• But other challenges have cropped up, too, from dockworker strikes to ballooning construction costs.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
• Su traveled to the West Coast and helped broker a deal between dockworkers and their employers.
  — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Thousands of angry dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles.
  — Margot Roosevelt, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• West Coast dockworkers have been working without a contract since the last agreement expired in July.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• And to the screen, when a dockworker criticizing Jaskier’s songs becomes a mouthpiece for fans.
  — Dawn Burkes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• Still, after a decade of recession and pain, Piraeus’s dockworkers sense the chance for growth—or, at least, stability.
  — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
• For six weeks, dockworkers at Swedish ports have refused to load or unload the electric cars made by billionaire Elon Musk.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Walking along the Baltimore wharf one day, Douglass stopped to help two Irish dockworkers unload a ship’s wares.
  — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
• But the statement was not exclusively directed toward the government, but to the dockworkers’ unions as well.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
• But the lunchtime crowd at Vinny’s Cafe, a popular Italian joint favored by dockworkers, is lighter than usual.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
• The world’s gotten a lot more dangerous in the last few days as the dockworkers’ strike threatens to hike the likes of grocery prices and the Mideast teeters on the brink of widespread warfare.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
• Even dockworkers at the Port of Baltimore filed litigation.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
• Videos circulated in the wake of the incident, which was sparked when dockworker Damien Pickett attempted to get a group to move their pontoon boat.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• There are bars still frequented by dockworkers, and hipsters wear T-shirts emblazoned with the hulking white cranes that line the Port of Oakland.
  — Conor Dougherty and Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• Lashers are the dockworkers responsible for securing and fastening cargo on ships.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
• Mamdani’s current chief of staff Elle Bisgaard-Church will serve as chair, while other new members include a Bronx high school teacher and a former dockworker.
  — Laura Nahmias, Bloomberg, 16 Apr. 2026
• The labor action, which started in September, reportedly swelled up to roughly 200 dockworkers at the port over the weekend.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
• On Monday morning, dockworkers at The Netherlands’ Port of Rotterdam put a stop to their strike following a court ruling.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025