Example Sentences

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Coal fired boilers fuelled by stokers kept the heat up for the tropical plants.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021

Several guide dogs sit by their owners, or wait for their return, while captains, stokers and volunteers hang out and socialize.

From Salon • May 29, 2017

On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016

This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2012

The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis