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
• At the same time, industrial facilities lured laborers into factories and mills as fewer were needed to work the land.
  — Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025
• Afraid of being next amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, some laborers have not left their homes for weeks except to go to work, canceling dance parties and quinceañeras.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 30 May 2025