WORKERS in a Sentence

Learn WORKERS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

256 example sentences for WORKERS, such as:

1. The workers bulldozed the building site.
2. Lab workers must wear protective clothing.
3. The workers' ultimate weapon was the strike.
4. The new workers need direction from a supervisor.
5. The company provides houses for some of its workers.

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 Meanings and Examples of WORKERS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
worker
 n.  a laborer or employee
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who could outwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  They told the negroes that if they would go back, they would go as free workers, protected by written contracts specifying wages by the day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  They did not want to be workers of any kind, anywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Regina's consenting to include a fashionable apprentice among her workers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  It was nine o'clock, and the house, being tenanted by workers, already showed an awakened front to the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
7  We workers in woods make bridal-bedsteads and card-tables, as well as coffins and hearses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
8  The workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  The managers and superintendents and clerks of Packingtown were all recruited from another class, and never from the workers; they scorned the workers, the very meanest of them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  One of the girls had read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  And every week the managers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  If he were of the highly skilled workers, he would probably have enough saved up to tide him over.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  Presumably sausages were once chopped and stuffed by hand, and if so it would be interesting to know how many workers had been displaced by these inventions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  She had her jacket off, like one of the workers on the killing beds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The workers' ultimate weapon was the strike.
17  Lab workers must wear protective clothing.
18  The film caused a lot of bad feeling, not least among the workers whose lives it described.
19  The workers were - pied in building new houses.
20  The workers bulldozed the building site.
21  There is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers.
22  You could hack several workers to help you carry these boxes.
23  The company provides houses for some of its workers.
24  The unions assured the new owners of the workers' loyalty to the company.
25  Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
26  The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
27  Washington advocated the coffee break, then, as a morale builder — particularly for the defense workers.
28  We suggest that this is misleading as different workers have used different sizes of the aorta to define an aneurysm.
29  A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
30  The new workers need direction from a supervisor.