LABORER in a Sentence

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292 example sentences for LABORER, such as:
1. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
2. You know that capital oppresses the laborer.
3. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
4. Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.
5. He mediated a settlement between labor and management.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LABORER
laborer
 n.  someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You know that capital oppresses the laborer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
2  Seeing the master, the laborer, Vassily, went towards the cart, while Mishka set to work sowing.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
3  And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
4  It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
5  What the laborer wanted was to work as pleasantly as possible, with rests, and above all, carelessly and heedlessly, without thinking.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
6  Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a drunkard and a thief whom no one would employ as a laborer.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 3
7  In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
8  Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
10  Having, through various causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
11  Behind it came an old man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
12  The laborer, the harvester, the sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed spirits in paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
13  Lastly, among such conditions of life there are few incentives to make the laborer become a better farmer.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  All they furnish is their labor; the land-owner furnishes land, stock, tools, seed, and house; and at the end of the year the laborer gets from a third to a half of the crop.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  A good tanner is a skilled laborer, and these Indians were not only expert makers of dressed leather, but they tanned skins and peltries with the hair or fur on.
2  In addition to the consumer, the laborer is essential to the culture of capitalism.
3  Sugar prices were so high that Hawaiian plantation owners were paying laborers a previously unthinkable $3.20 an hour.
4  Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor.
5  The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
6  It was difficult to measure the precise impact of the labor action.
7  Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
8  Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
9  He mediated a settlement between labor and management.
10  Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions.
11  Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.
12  His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
13  You need to rest from your labor; you look very tired.
14  We should try to reform criminals through labor rather than punish them.
15  We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists.