Example Sentences

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Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stokers and passengers jump over; I never knew a sailor to do that, drunk or sober.

From Man Overboard! by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review, and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers—Highways and Byways, and wrote a Life of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

Stokers promenading in the uniforms of Guards officers, and ship's boys in huge "British Warms."

From 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by Caunter, John Alan Lyde

Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals.

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles