Laborers is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Laborers meaning
plural of laborer
Using Laborers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of laborer
- In the example corpus, laborers often appears in combinations such as: the laborers, laborers to, laborers and.
Context around Laborers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laborers
- In this selection, "laborers" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forced, black, construction, commonly, usually and clearing stand out and add context to how "laborers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 thai laborers worked in and and black laborers commonly lived. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laborers" sits close to words such as agitation, alec and bluff, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laborers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many forced laborers are already dead and survivors are in their 90s. (12 words)
My fellow laborers were increasingly immigrants, rather than Black Americans like me. (12 words)
A landowner went at dawn to hire laborers to work in his field. (13 words)
He's given them safeguards, medical care, and a children's park, but he's also given tradesmen a 10% wage raise for six months, which would put them in direct conflict with the laborers, at which point the union members will fight among themselves. (45 words)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized young laborers to launch a new housing project in Pyongyang, state media said on Sunday, as he pushes for an ambitious plan to build 50,000 homes in the capital despite deepening economic hardships. (42 words)
He said the people who were committing these acts of violence against laborers were doing so under the guise of law and order and vigilantism, attempting to keep the business owners in power by suppressing the voices of laborers. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
He said the people who were committing these acts of violence against laborers were doing so under the guise of law and order and vigilantism, attempting to keep the business owners in power by suppressing the voices of laborers.
In the early years, the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid, and white and black laborers commonly lived and worked together, and formed unions.
The laborers usually worked three shifts of 8 hours each per day, while the foremen worked in two shifts of 12 hours each, managing the laborers.
A dejected Somchai Saensuk looks out through his collapsed house wall at construction laborers clearing away the rubble.
A landowner went at dawn to hire laborers to work in his field.
Before the Israel-Hamas war, about 30,000 Thai laborers worked in Israel’s agriculture sector, comprising one of the largest migrant worker groups in the country.
Brent Booker, general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which represents mostly construction and energy sector workers and endorsed Biden last week, said not all of his union's members are Democrats.
By the time Junior strolled up to the corner of Garfield Park at 8 a.m. one Wednesday, half a dozen day laborers already stood under a tree, teasing each other.
Canubas then informed the chief engineer and together with the laborers at the port and the Philippine Coast Guard rescued the victim.
Contrary to what your university administration will tell you, students aren’t the lucky consumers of elite knowledge as much as we are laborers.
Etim also berated some parents who allowed their children to be used as laborers on people’s farm and as hawkers.
He's given them safeguards, medical care, and a children's park, but he's also given tradesmen a 10% wage raise for six months, which would put them in direct conflict with the laborers, at which point the union members will fight among themselves.
He was accused by Pakistani laborers of blasphemy after criticizing two drivers working on the project of taking too much time to pray during work hours.
It was intended in particular to halt the mass exodus of skilled laborers, professionals, and intellectuals from East to West, which was causing economic and political problems for the East German government.
Many forced laborers are already dead and survivors are in their 90s.
Many men work overseas as seasonal laborers while women often stay in the community.
My fellow laborers were increasingly immigrants, rather than Black Americans like me.
Negative opinion toward the Yoon administration’s resolution of the issue of former forced laborers is already deeply rooted.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized young laborers to launch a new housing project in Pyongyang, state media said on Sunday, as he pushes for an ambitious plan to build 50,000 homes in the capital despite deepening economic hardships.
Phitsamai Baothong outside the apartment complex used as a garment sweatshop that they were held captive in 28 years ago as slave laborers.
Common combinations with laborers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the laborers 17×
- laborers to 15×
- laborers and 14×
- of laborers 13×
- laborers who 13×
- and laborers 10×
- migrant laborers 9×
- laborers in 9×
- laborers are 8×
- day laborers 7×