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
  • We’re told that golf balls fished out of a pond are worth more than these laborers.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
  • In the process, some lowly laborer spleens might get shrimpy too.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Around a thousand union laborers were laid off.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • As Elease put it, Mark was a laborer.
    — Oklahoman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • For scale, a skilled laborer at the time earned 350 florins a year.
    — James Berman, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • All these new bathrooms and kitchens have drained the supply of skilled laborers.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • All of this is thrilling news for the literary laborer.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • Bobby was the son of a laborer and boxer.
    — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • As these storms darkened the prairies, farmers and laborers alike sought refuge.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • John works for the city as a laborer, and Kimi owns a hair salon.
    — Mackenzie Matwick, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The city is wealthy, and slave laborers from the empire have taken over the menial work.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There would then be further steps in place to ensure laborers are not left in a state of limbo.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Witkus offered to show him to where other laborers were working, and the man thanked him.
    — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • James worked as a laborer; Eunice stayed at home to raise the children.
    — Cheryl W. Thompson, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The ice on the surface, more than 2 feet thick, had been cut by a team of laborers with chainsaws.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Repairs had been carried out in record time, with dozens of laborers working on the site at any one time.
    — Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • Charlie said his mother had attended the school and was used as a laborer to build the place.
    — Annie Hylton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • This is a story all too real to the farm laborers and low-wage tourism workers who call this region home.
    — Silvia Paz, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • The attorney said his client works as a laborer to repair fire damage.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Most American laborers only want to work on the farm part-time — if at all.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The camera cuts away to the pickup truck bed, but it’s not filled with Latino laborers.
    — Bill Torpy, ajc, 4 June 2018
  • 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
  • Men dressed in laborers’ rags responded with a triple roar for His Majesty.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Thousands of laborers spent years creating the reservoir, the lake, the rolling hills.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024

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