riveter
Example Sentences
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My mother, Ella Mae, had been a riveter during World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
She learned long ago, holding a riveter in her hand, that limits don’t always apply and anyone can forge a path forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
He worked as a riveter for Boeing to help pay his way through UW School of Law, where he graduated in 1958.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
The “Rosie” behind that song is well known: Rosalind P. Walter, a Long Island woman who was a riveter on Corsair fighter planes and is now a philanthropist, most notably a benefactor of public television.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
