How to Use steelworker in a Sentence

steelworker

noun
  • The time for talk about standing up for our steelworkers has passed.
    — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2018
  • These workers are the best steelworkers and make the best steel for cars.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • His father was a steelworker and his mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    — Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The steelworker sat with his arms crossed, waiting to see what would happen.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The steelworker doesn’t want to risk sitting on his son’s bed and hugging him.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2020
  • One is the grandson of a steelworker who was also a union leader.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • As far as the steelworkers and retirees go, there is a sense of frustration.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
  • Cruz said of the event in a meeting with steelworkers the following month.
    — Andrea Drusch, star-telegram, 20 Mar. 2018
  • His mother was a schoolteacher, his father a farmer and steelworker.
    — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Anxo, a 58-year-old welder joins a Vigo steelworkers strike.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Todd Clary, a steelworker standing near the stage, was impressed.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • His father was a steelworker and so was one of his grandfathers; the other worked in a coal mine.
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In the early days, steelworkers toiled in extreme heat, catching steel hot rods with cotton gloves and tongs.
    — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • One of my final trips was to visit to a steel mill in Indiana to thank the steelworkers.
    — A.j. Jacobs, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • His father was a steelworker, and his mother was a homemaker.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Tens of thousands of steelworkers in and around Gary were laid off, and high unemployment led to crime.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The other is the daughter of a steelworker father and a seamstress mother.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Few jobs have been as fetishized, as mythologized, and as misunderstood as that of the steelworker.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
  • At the moment, Davis shook the hand of Burgess as the camera focused on the steelworker.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The former steelworker started with 250 shiitake logs and eight wine cap beds.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2018
  • Trump had begun with a tribute to the steelworkers who built America.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Both the steel industry and steelworkers' unions decried the tariffs.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • Much of the action takes place at a bar where the steelworkers hang out; among them are Cynthia, who is black, and Tracey, who is white.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Her stern steelworker father — who made the Colts practice squad — encouraged in her a love of sports and diehard work ethic.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
  • The former steelworker town about 90 minutes east of Pittsburgh is a distressed city with a low tax base.
    — USA Today, 5 June 2019
  • The steelworkers union has been joined by members from the teachers, hotel, and postal workers unions in getting out the vote for Lamb.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The union is diverse, ranging from health care workers to gravediggers, Brown said, along with its namesake steelworkers.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Casting a vote that helps steelworkers in one state but raises prices for builders in another is politically risky.
    — Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
  • His father was a steelworker and his mother a live-in domestic who saw Michals and his brother only on weekends.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 June 2026
  • Lattanzi worked the line as a steelworker for thirty years at the Irvin Works in nearby West Mifflin.
    — Salena Zito, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025

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