How to Use day laborer in a Sentence

day laborer

noun
  • They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
  • Tucker pays day laborers ten bucks an hour, and the structure is built in two days.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • His parents were forced into the fields as farm day laborers.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
  • This season, Lane has been able to find work as a day laborer felling trees.
    — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Two Haitian day laborers’ wedding ends with the groom’s death.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The women and children beg for money, the men get odd jobs as day laborers.
    — Muneeza Naqvi, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Shtewi scrapes by with occasional work as a porter or day laborer.
    — Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • Some live on the fringes, sharing tiny rooms or riding bikes to day laborer pickup sites an hour away.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The film’s three dark night take in a first, where the wedding of two Haitian day laborers ends with the groom’s death.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Home Depot has said that day laborers are not part of its business model.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the drug world, this was a modest step up — from day laborer to shift supervisor.
    — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The attack took place in a busy Baghdad square where day laborers gather to look for work.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Brown had spent 21 years in the Navy and had most recently worked as a day laborer.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Many of them had been working outdoors as day laborers, Soomro said.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
  • Then, suddenly, a speeding bus filled with day laborers barreled through the crash site.
    — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • As a day laborer who was making $10 a week, Thomas didn’t have much money.
    — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Her husband, a day laborer, suffered heatstroke this year, missing a week’s work — and a week’s pay.
    — Somini Sengupta, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
  • Some of its funding comes from city governments to create safe spaces for day laborers to find work.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • The square is a major way station for commuters and a place where day laborers gather in the hopes of picking up work.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In a video last month, from Nasiriyah, a group of day laborers screamed into the camera as fires burned behind them.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2020
  • Those shoppers now hire day laborers, too, for quick repairs or landscaping.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Look for the helpers As fires rage, day laborers volunteer to clean up Pasadena’s streets.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
  • On the first occasion, a group of day laborers told them they had been asked to remove suspicious bags that felt heavy and soggy.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This time of the year is stressful for Guerra, a 42-year-old day laborer from Guatemala.
    — Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Takahashi used to work as a day laborer in a shipbuilding yard in Hiroshima.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 3 May 2020
  • But the day laborers told NBC4 the contents felt soft and soggy, like meat.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • She was approached by agents after recording them arresting day laborers.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That led to a protest outside Home Depot among advocates for day laborers.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • Its stores and parking lots have long served as gathering places for day laborers, many of whom are undocumented.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Gaza day laborers stranded in the West Bank sleep in a sports hall and check their phones for messages from their families.
    — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023

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