It was the riotous variety, where at least one of a group would “laugh till she most cried”; nor did it make the least difference, whether the forelady was one foot or one hundred away.
Ada I loved—our forelady in the bead work—young, good-looking, intelligent.
Nor was the laughter the giggling kind, indulged in when the forelady was not looking.
Shows she's got nothin' up here [knocking her head] or she sure'd know better than get the forelady down on her like that.
All this I had from the forelady in between her finding out everything there was to know about me.
At the bleachery, when extra effort was needed, the forelady passed a letter around our table from a New York firm, saying their order must be filled by the end of that week or they would feel justified in canceling the same.
Bless my soul, if Lucia did not perk up the second the forelady left, edge over, and direct a volume of Italian at me.
Mrs. Hall had been a forelady in a New York private dressmaking establishment.
Then she concluded it must be because she did not give the forelady a present occasionally--she was the kind that took presents from the girls, Ona learned, and made all sorts of discriminations in favor of those who gave them.
For a long time Ona had seen that Miss Henderson, the forelady in her department, did not like her.
The fact that Mary had been there so long had not made any difference to her--it was doubtful if she even knew that, for both the forelady and the superintendent were new people, having only been there two or three years themselves.
The next time she would know her place, as the forelady expressed it; and so Marija went out, and the family faced the problem of an existence again.
Ona was quite certain that she would find her place gone, and was all unnerved when she finally got to Brown's, and found that the forelady herself had failed to come, and was therefore compelled to be lenient.
After that it would be all right, said Ona, it was no strain sitting still sewing hams all day; and if she waited longer she might find that her dreadful forelady had put some one else in her place.
Just how things happened after that Marija was not sure, but that afternoon the forelady told her that her services would not be any longer required.
The forelady had to come up to a certain standard herself, and could not stop for sick people, Jadvyga explained.
I pretend I'm an actress out of a job for the time being, or a forelady in a big shop who's taking a day or so off, or a respectable girl living with her parents.
Penny started to accompany Sally, but the forelady by a gesture indicated that she was not to come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forelady" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
