riveter

Example Sentences

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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

Before the war, after completing eighth grade, he’d worked as a helper for steel-construction riveter and then for the Civilian Conservation Corps.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2017

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