stoker

Example Sentences

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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

Built like a Eugene O’Neill coal stoker, with ears that stuck out and heavy eyebrows above kind eyes, he could read as cuddly or threatening, or even cuddly and threatening, as necessary.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021

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

‘Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris-Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn’t awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan