And it was too funny to be told as I went about--I must not smoke--yet hundreds of drills and riveters were shedding showers of sparks and there is nothing but iron to be seen.
Findlayson picked his way back to his bank, sweeping the last of McCartney's riveters before him.
He turned from Pete, and called to the young foreman: "I'll look at the riveters now.
The riveters are keeping right on our heels," said Tom.
Then the riveters knocked down the head of the rivet with long-nosed hammers, striking alternately in rapid succession and making the neighbourhood resound with the blows.
The rivetersfollow and make everything solid and compact.
As the men with chisels and steam-points became exhausted others took their places, but the structural gang clung to its perch above, augmenting the din of riveters and the groaning of blocks and tackle.
I'll go with you, and we'll send the end riveters in first.
The end riveters had reached the bank and were dispersing among the tool-houses, and the second gang had picked up their tools and were starting toward the shore.
And higher still I saw the glow of red-hot iron, where the riveters were working.
Our friend went on to tell us how the riveters often get into tight places, say on the tower, where there is so little room for the forge-man to heat his bolts that he has to throw them up to the hammer-man, twenty or thirty feet.
In these grottoes of steel the clamor of the riveters grew maddening in her ears.
All the workers were receiving immense increase of pay, but the champion riveters were lavishly rewarded.
The spirit of emulation thrilled all the thrillable workmen, but the riveters were the spectacular favorites.
He piled robes on her, but thoseriveters inside her threatened to pound her to death.
The shipyard atmosphere was shattered all day long as if with machine-gun fire and the riveters were indeed firing at Germany.
After the steel workers and the riveters had finished on the hull, then the inside work, including the fitting of the machinery, was turned over to Mr. Owen, our present foreman.
One day, shortly after the return of the submarine boys to Dunhaven, while the hammers of the riveters were ringing out merrily on the hull of the second Pollard boat, Jacob Farnum sent for Captain Jack Benson and his friends.
A strange quiet had fallen upon the sky-scraper now; the workmen had gone down the ladders, the steam-riveters had ceased their tapping.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riveters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
