Example sentences for: laborers

How can you use “laborers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.

  • With the Jews who left Spain went many of the country’s bankers and merchants, and with the Moors, a good number of its agriculturists and laborers.

  • There was a shortage of farm laborers during World War II, and this program offered an answer to that problem, although some braceros also worked on the railroad.

  • For example, adjusting for age differences between subjects in the economic studies and those affected by air pollution may imply the need to adjust the $6 million VSL downward, but the involuntary nature of air pollution-related risks and the lower level of risk-aversion of the manual laborers in the labor market studies may imply the need for upward adjustments.

  • Irma Luna, a community worker with that program, said it's not uncommon for indigenous laborers to perform piecework for 10 hours a day and be paid $30 or less.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast