Example Sentences

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I would wear the blue overalls of the field-worker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati tea-glasses.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

As we drove into Freetown, the field-worker introduced himself: “My name is Leslie, it is a pleasure to meet you gentlemen.”

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

Only Marta wasn’t a poor field-worker like the rest of us.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

For some time I was a field-worker for the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, being sent every Sunday to a new region to make the yearly visit on behalf of the league.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel

My children soon married, and I would not be a burden to them; so I came East for a while, and settled down quite unexpectedly into a place as a field-worker for a child-labour committee.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton