workwoman

Example Sentences

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His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

In 1878 she heard that one of the workmen was about to marry a workwoman, since dead, who was blind, deformed, and very much out of health.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances

She was an indefatigable workwoman, rivalling her husband as an expert catcher, and all the year through she talked of little else but the coming run.

From Legends of Vancouver by Johnson, E. Pauline

No other workwoman knew how to do it, and Grannie was very careful not to impart her secret to the trade.

From Good Luck by Meade, L. T.