WORKERS in a Sentence

Learn WORKERS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
256 example sentences for WORKERS, such as:
1. He organized the workers into a trade union.
2. The chairman exhorted the party workers to action.
3. The workers wear masks to avoid inhaling the dust.
4. They did not want to be workers of any kind, anywhere.
5. The company distributed its profits among its workers.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WORKERS
worker
 n.  a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
 n.  a person who works at a specific occupation
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who could outwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  They told the negroes that if they would go back, they would go as free workers, protected by written contracts specifying wages by the day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  They did not want to be workers of any kind, anywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Regina's consenting to include a fashionable apprentice among her workers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  It was nine o'clock, and the house, being tenanted by workers, already showed an awakened front to the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
7  We workers in woods make bridal-bedsteads and card-tables, as well as coffins and hearses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
8  The workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  The managers and superintendents and clerks of Packingtown were all recruited from another class, and never from the workers; they scorned the workers, the very meanest of them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  One of the girls had read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  And every week the managers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  If he were of the highly skilled workers, he would probably have enough saved up to tide him over.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  Presumably sausages were once chopped and stuffed by hand, and if so it would be interesting to know how many workers had been displaced by these inventions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  She had her jacket off, like one of the workers on the killing beds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Refugee workers said such action was a violation of medical ethics.
2  The chairman exhorted the party workers to action.
3  The manager's arrival galvanized the workers into activity.
4  The manager's arrival galvanised the workers into activity.
5  A quarter of all workers admit to taking time off when they are not ill.
6  The company distributed its profits among its workers.
7  Troops have been sent to protect aid workers against attack.
8  The workers wear masks to avoid inhaling the dust.
9  They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers.
10  For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
11  He organized the workers into a trade union.
12  Trade was so good that the firm was able to set on more workers.
13  They have trade - unionized most of the workers.
14  Many companies still treat their management staff better than their workers.
15  Various other groups of workers went on strike in solidarity with the train drivers.