How to Use laborer in a Sentence

laborer

noun
  • He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
  • Thank you to all the laborers that worked very hard to host my team.
    Claire Stern, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
  • For scale, a skilled laborer at the time earned 350 florins a year.
    James Berman, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • Naqvi said those who killed the laborers would not be able to escape from the grip of the law.
    Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • She's just been in the embrace of John, a farm laborer.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The 43-year-old laborer left a wife and three children.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The laborers to Russia has been going on the whole time.
    Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
  • The city is wealthy, and slave laborers from the empire have taken over the menial work.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At the time of the 1885 purge, Moon worked as a cook and manual laborer on a ranch on Redwood Creek.
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In the process, some lowly laborer spleens might get shrimpy too.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • At the time of the 1885 purge, Moon worked as a cook and manual laborer on a ranch on Redwood Creek.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • In 2023, home health and personal aides, cashiers and laborers ranked as some of the most common jobs across the state.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
  • All these new bathrooms and kitchens have drained the supply of skilled laborers.
    New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • James worked as a laborer; Eunice stayed at home to raise the children.
    Cheryl W. Thompson, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Kelly met a laborer named Lawrence Weeks at a speakeasy on Waller Street.
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
  • New Garden used to be open from 5 p.m. to the wee hours of the morning to serve the laborers who worked in the produce district and on the railroad.
    Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Within a few weeks of the dense fog's arrival, many of the laborers grow tired and develop headaches and fevers.
    Ashli Blow, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Michael Day has made a good life for himself as a laborer in the oil and gas industry.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The camera cuts away to the pickup truck bed, but it’s not filled with Latino laborers.
    Bill Torpy, ajc, 4 June 2018
  • At 68, my father went to work as a laborer earning $5 a day.
    Jelena McWilliams, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Charlie said his mother had attended the school and was used as a laborer to build the place.
    Annie Hylton, Longreads, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Angry mobs of white men rounded up Sikh laborers, beat them up and forced them to leave town.
    Simran Jeet Singh, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2019
  • His 23-year-old boy, a laborer, was traveling to the city of Chennai for his job, like many others in the coach with him.
    Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
    cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Her father was a laborer and, by the 1950s, was working as a bottler in a brewery.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Thousands of laborers spent years creating the reservoir, the lake, the rolling hills.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In China, millions of laborers are ready to shift into high-tech manufacturing at a moment's notice.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • They were bullied, beaten, humiliated, tortured and shot, with productive laborers crammed on top of one another in the dirty stone barracks—separately from the Jewish prisoners, whose numbers grew ever larger.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025

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