Example Sentences

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Over the last 25 work shifts, only 733 jobs were available for 1,575 longshoremen looking for work, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

Under the current contract, longshoremen earn a top rate of $39 an hour.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024

Once the ship is removed, maritime traffic can begin returning to normal, which will provide relief for thousands of longshoremen, truckers and small business owners whose jobs have been affected by the closure.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

In addition to some 15,000 longshoremen, the two ports support hundreds of thousands of jobs in the region — in trucking, warehousing, trade finances and countless small businesses.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

He sat a while with those longshoremen, shipwrights, and weatherworkers, taking pleasure in their slow, sparse conversation, their grumbling Gontish speech.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin