stoker

Example Sentences

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This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Instead, he funded his passage by working as a stoker on a ship, before making contact with some friends in Belfast who transported him to Omagh.

From BBC • May 24, 2021

It offers stoker coal, both non-treated and oil treated.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019

In 1939, while working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban, he found work as a stoker abroad a freighter and made his way to London.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2017

His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti