Example Sentences

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Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stokers, he was reminded by her tone, did not usually "happen around" on decks of palatial private yachts.

From A Man and His Money by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Stokers were enlisted, in a similar way, from those working on land-boilers.

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William

Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review, and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers—Highways and Byways, and wrote a Life of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

Stokers, engineers, mechanics worked almost naked, in heat like that of a furnace.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard