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Example sentences for "platelayer"

Lexicographically close words:
plateau; plateaus; plateaux; plated; plateful; platelayers; platelets; plateresque; platers; plates
  1. The law has it that no man must work as a platelayer on the running lines until he is over twenty-one years of age.

  2. Twenty-two years," I answered, for I was well aware that a man is never taken on as a platelayer until he has attained his majority.

  3. No platelayer other than the foreman shall be authorised to undertake any work interfering with the free passage of trains.

  4. The foreman platelayer shall be responsible for keeping the whole of the permanent way, bridges, cattle stops, banks, road crossings, etc.

  5. He shall watch carefully that the whole of the line and its accessories are kept in thorough working order, and shall direct the foreman platelayer in regard to any part requiring attention.

  6. The foreman platelayer shall report to the engine-driver any case of material found deposited within two feet of the rail, and likewise any other infraction of Regulations which may come to his notice.

  7. It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great.

  8. He (the platelayer he meant) couldn't very well lose more than you do; and you'll never make more than he does.

  9. One of them explicitly declared his envy of a platelayer whom the train passed on the line.

  10. It was discovered this morning by a platelayer engaged in examining the rails in the long tunnel just beyond Welwyn Station on the Great Northern Railway.

  11. The story told by the platelayer who found the chatelaine was to the effect that he noticed a paper bag lying in the centre of the up-express line and, on picking it up, found the jingling bunch of gold impedimenta.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platelayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.