Example Sentences

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There was an 88-day walkout by pressmen in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Former pressmen were among the troops, and they set up shop at a local newspaper office that had been abandoned by its Confederate-sympathizing publisher.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2020

Before the professions of typesetters and pressmen split, most printers were jacks-of-all-trades, completing apprenticeships that required they learn every task in a printing office.

From Economist • May 23, 2018

Lincoln, looking for a moment beyond the endless dance of pols and pressmen, merely replied, “If the bad Times would go where we want them, good Times would be sure to follow.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2015

Then, after retrieving him from the water, they formed a phalanx, forced their way into the building, and slid the doors closed behind themselves, letting in only a few Seattle pressmen.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown