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

His father, a man Stamp once described as "emotionally closed down", was a ship's stoker and often away from home.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

“They are blind,” he thinks, “to Mahmood Hussein Mattan and all his real manifestations: the tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant Wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

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