In this time of letter-writing, the men reveal the most and the best that they ever were.
The light touch of a little shaft of cold sunlight that lingers on the land sets a-glitter both his glasses and the diamond that hangs from his nose.
This skirmish-line was composed of stragglers he had gathered up, and whom he had transformed from a lot of shirkers into a band of heroes.
This was the last we saw of our baggage, as it was plundered and stolen by camp-followers and shirkers who stayed behind.
The first day the Bluenose came aboard one of the worst shirkers slung a bucket carelessly, cut the deck, and then proceeded to curse the ship and all who sailed in her, as he had been accustomed to do under the Britisher.
Even aboard the famous Black Ball Line of Yankee transatlantic packets in the forties there was plenty of 'handspike hash' and 'belaying-pin soup' forshirkers or mutineers.
Compulsion has thinned the ranks of the shirkers down to an irreducible minimum, and a visit to the Savoy at any time in the last six months of 1916 would show khaki entirely preponderant, just as it is in the streets.
No shirkers would be left if every subject of the Crown were taught to apprehend the significance of Henley's interrogation: What have I done for you, England, my England?
What I can't stand is those blooming swipes, those shirkers who sit at home and who call themselves men.
I am describing it to try if possible to raise a blush of shame on the faces of those shirkers at home who are a disgrace to the name of Englishman.
Have the shirkers at home ever thought, I wonder, of what would happen if Germany should conquer!
You should hear what the men at the front are saying about the shirkers who are hanging back.
By George, that idea of giving a white feather to all the shirkers was just fine.
And some of the worst cowards and shirkers and slackers that ever lived belonged to our ancient and noble order of the horny-handed sons of toil, that Jake Vodell orates about.
And you shirkers in your Mill workers' union are willing to stand aside and let us do your fighting for you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirkers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
