How to Use stevedore in a Sentence

stevedore

noun
  • Simón quickly finds work as a stevedore, hauling sacks of grain.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • But then what’s with all the stevedores from central casting?
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Mavrinac pushed back, saying the stevedore usually hands a handwritten plan to the crew, and that the crew uses that to account for the cargo present.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The gist of the muckraking editorial was that Teddy was a drunk who also swore like a stevedore.
    — Mark Will-Weber, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The sailors had received little training as stevedores but were forced to load munitions — a dangerous task — as White officers made bets on which units would move the fastest.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • In a nightmare version of the Gilded Age, bankers and stevedores alike attend vaudevilles, swig opium, and sign contracts with Mephistopheles.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The fire began on the ship’s 10th deck as crew members and local stevedores were loading vehicles, according to Grimaldi.
    — Elise Young, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • When Jackson was 6, her mother died, leaving her to be raised by her father, a preacher on Sundays who worked as a stevedore and a barber during the week.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • In Panama City, Josh West, a 39-year-old stevedore, rode out the hurricane at his home with his roommate and daughter.
    — Jon Kamp and Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • His father, Ryozo, a sumo wrestler from Fukuoka Prefecture, became a stevedore and owner of a dry cleaning shop in Hawaii.
    — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • An unemployed former stevedore, Kenneth Humphrey, had followed an elderly man into his apartment and stolen $7 in cash and a bottle of cologne.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Crispus Attucks, a former slave, and stevedore of whose father was African and whose mother Native American.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • These days, those vacancies increasingly mean jobs for software professionals, not stevedores or steel workers, the working-class aristocracy that once reigned along the banks of the Ruhr.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Normandy’s Negroes, serving in mostly segregated units, worked under fire instead as stevedores and as antiaircraft men who ran up barrage balloons to frustrate enemy air strikes at the beaches.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 5 June 2019
  • Five days earlier, stevedores in Brooklyn had finished loading her with a staggering 6 million pounds of high explosives, 13 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
    — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The Hellfighters, formally known as the 369th Infantry, began as cooks and stevedores for the French, but moved to the front to fight, often with valor, as French forces were depleted.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • At the time, Zemo served as the general manager of port operations for a private company running a terminal and providing stevedore services at the Port of New Orleans.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
    — Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • At Brunswick, the stevedores driving the vehicles onto the ships, members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, say there is enough work for entry-level workers to get 40 hours a week, something that was rare in the past.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • In O'Neill's 1921 treatise on masculinity and the divide between the rich and the poor, Yank, a stevedore who prides himself on his physical prowess, runs headlong into the brutal sophistication of high society Manhattan.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2017

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