How to Use worker in a Sentence
worker
noun- If management doesn't make the changes, the workers will go on strike.
- They are both hard workers.
- The company is planning to hire 200 workers.
- The average worker earned $1,000 more this year.
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Who will be state workers’ next boss?
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
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That’s a huge gap, and low-wage workers fared even worse.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
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State workers and their unions have vowed to keep up the fight this year.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
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But in the end, workers can only put up with so much.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2026
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One part-time worker's pay fell by over 70%.
—Huo Jingnan, NPR, 3 May 2026
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But these workers feel they are not being heard.
—Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
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And this doesn’t just fall on the shoulders of workers.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
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Most fired oil workers never got their jobs back.
—Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
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But as workers, the stakes are much higher.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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The teenager's guardian and case worker were with her in court.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
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The workers that are locked out suffer.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
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Six workers were gathered around the spire.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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At least four healthcare workers have died.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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That meant there were more languages, more cuisines and more workers.
—Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
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Liz Crandall was one of the workers let go last year.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 17 May 2026
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The fear that the machines are coming for workers is an old one.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 27 June 2026
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In other words, workers are about to take a pay cut for a war most didn’t ask for.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 10 May 2026
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So your co-worker was rude to you or someone cut you off in traffic.
—Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
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Joshua, Demitri said, was a hard worker who just to be happy.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 Nov. 2022
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One worker was killed and two others are presumed dead.
—Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
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Two of the workers are dead; four are still missing and presumed dead.
—Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
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Still, many workers are anxious.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
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Both the postal worker and Payne took the stand in the trial’s first day.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
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The increased visa costs will force them to fly even fewer workers to client sites.
—Sankalp Phartiyal, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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Teachers have perks that many other workers may not.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
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And the earnings gap grows as workers build their careers.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
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