How to Use roustabout in a Sentence

roustabout

noun
  • Her Big Maybelle-Etta James roustabouts find this classic form.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The suspension, even with its rear torsion-beam setup, dips a shoulder to bite cleanly into corners and roustabout fun.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Billy Bigelow is one of theater’s most ambivalent characters, a roustabout who wants to turn his life around and do right by Julie but isn’t up to the task.
    — Orange County Register, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Well-paying jobs in oil and gas — drilling wells, managing roustabouts — are fast disappearing, as production in the state declines because of a slump in energy prices.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2017
  • Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.
    — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The Bowery reference made the area seem rather seedy and sordid, conjuring up images of barroom brawls, prostitution, roustabouts and gambling houses.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Other opportunities include administrative and executive assistants, accountants, truck drivers, crane operators, cyber security professionals, traditional floor hands and roustabouts, said Head.
    — Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018

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