laborer

Example Sentences

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Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council announced they would abandon the holiday honoring Chavez’s birthday and instead rename it “Farm Workers Day” to honor laborers who toil in the fields.

From Los Angeles Times

Sometimes it was a customer; most often it was simply a visitor—from a laborer with wooden klompen on his feet to a fleet owner—all bringing their problems to Father.

From Literature

For decades, agricultural laborers had lived in substandard housing and were paid terrible wages.

From Los Angeles Times

However, other than Revueltas’ fictional account, the story of the laborers, their movement’s successes and the astonishing cultivation of the desert lands had been lost to history — until now.

From Los Angeles Times

In a neighborhood housing migrant laborers in Qatar, people ran screaming as a projectile fell from the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal