Example sentences for: longshoreman

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

  • At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.

  • Kazan made his case more memorably in the 1954 film On the Waterfront , in which Marlon Brando plays a longshoreman faced with a choice about whether to "rat" on the murderous and corrupt leadership of his union.


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