grafter

Example Sentences

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After encouragement from two passengers, he starts rapping, referring to himself as the B-Town Grafter.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2022

Nearly 24,000 people have signed a petition aimed at stopping the BBC broadcasting Britain's Hardest Grafter, where low-paid workers vie for £15,500.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2015

Graduate Fog, a graduate careers site which says it names and shames "intern exploiters", called Britain's Hardest Grafter a "controversial Hunger Games-style TV show" and has been encouraging its Twitter followers to sign the petition.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2015

They discovered that Grafter Calhoun had paid to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors $200,000 for the overhead trolley franchise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hiram Grafter taught me to ballyhoo And to make openings.

From The Broadway Anthology by Bernays, Edward L.