How to Use dockworker in a Sentence

dockworker

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  • There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
    — Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
    — Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • 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 young volunteers were a cross section of the colony of Maryland: wealthy merchants’ sons, dockworkers, school kids and free and enslaved black youth.
    — Time, 4 July 2019
  • 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
  • And even if the port is able to receive ships, flooded roads and railroads could prevent dockworkers, trucks and trains from unloading them.
    — Alison Sider, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Thousands of angry dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles.
    — Margot Roosevelt, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
  • The powerful dockworker unions, anxious at the prospect of foreign ownership, went on strike for six weeks.
    — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
  • 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
  • His father was a dockworker and later ran a candy shop, and his mother was a homemaker.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sundet, who did not return phone messages seeking comment, started as a dockworker in the 1980s.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
  • When Wolff moved to Chelsea from Tennessee to chase a career in dance more than six decades ago, the neighborhood was largely Spanish-speaking, with single-room apartments for dockworkers.
    — Natalie Wong, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • In June, thousands of dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles against the coming introduction of robotic machines threatening their jobs.
    — Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 26 July 2019
  • By contrast, the 2022 termination of the dockworkers’ strike at Felixstowe, the U.K.’s busiest port, yielded no worker wage increases.
    — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Her late husband’s ancestors—a Sicilian dockworker and his wife, a femme de couleur libre, according to Louisiana’s baroque racial-caste system—bought the land that the club sits on.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Competition for cargo may have brought unionized dockworkers and employers at U.S. East and Gulf coast ports back to the bargaining table.
    — Paul Page, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Her father held a variety of jobs — security guard, dockworker, bartender — while her mother stayed home with the children.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Her four children were still asleep in her cement block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers.
    — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 27 July 2019
  • Her four children were still asleep in her concrete block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers.
    — Anemona Hartocollis, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
  • All of the defendants except for one dockworker submitted plea agreements.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The sensitive drama involves the unraveling of a middle-aged Dublin dockworker’s life.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Port facilities in Galveston, Corpus Christi, and elsewhere along the coast were also closed, and dockworkers were working to ensure loose cargo and equipment were secure.
    — Brian Baskin, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • In the Mississippi Territory, produce rotted in barns; in New England, dockworkers and sailors sat idle.
    — Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2017

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