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Example sentences for "stevedore"

Lexicographically close words:
steterat; stethoscope; stetit; stets; steuen; stevedores; stew; steward; stewardess; stewardesses
  1. Imagine a stevedore as a moving picture star!

  2. I'll bet right now I can go down to the docks or some place and get a handsome stevedore and make him as big a star as Carrington De Vire in six months!

  3. Ain't a stevedore as good as anybody else?

  4. A stevedore and a lot of dock porters took up the two canoes, and ran with them for the slip.

  5. A steamer was coming down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warnings, the stevedore and his porters were bawling from the quay.

  6. But our stevedore didn't tell all there was of the Orion and the Sirius.

  7. A big stevedore carried her down two decks to where the gang-plank was thrown across.

  8. Once he raised his voice, and a negro stevedore rushed frantically aft, as if he had received the end of a lightning-bolt.

  9. The black stevedore represented a section of the United States.

  10. And the stevedore wondered if General Pershing would expect these Negro men to report to him information with precision and correctitude.

  11. The black stevedore wondered why America had brought him so far under white officers to behold such a sight.

  12. It was the Negro band, fresh from America, which gave the stevedore his greatest delight.

  13. The handling of purveyance and cutlery on a huge scale by black commissioned officers was a revelation to the black stevedore of the far South who had never seen such a sight in all his days.

  14. Long will stevedore tradition recite the story of how these black "big gun men" came by.

  15. The stevedore wondered if the black boys of the 92nd Division would have to get into the fight with Germany, depending upon the kind of barrage which some of the men whom he knew in America might lay down for him.

  16. It was a great experience for stevedore and infantryman.

  17. The stevedore beheld arrive Negro signal men, monitors of their troops and of a million whites behind them, death watch to the German enemy, destined to be sentinels and patrolmen of No Man's Land.

  18. They had come, so the wide-mouthed stevedore was told, to pit their 35 ounces of brain against the German's 45 ounces, and to prove that the Hun back brain is surplus overweight and should be reduced to Negro proportions.

  19. The stevedore found in his midst elegantly groomed, but speechless Negroes whom, his friends whispered to him, belonged to the United States Intelligence Department.

  20. Hardesty booted him in the rump, and the stevedore had all he could do to stop from falling into the kettle drum.

  21. The stevedore rolled his eyes and offered Pitchblend a suggestive whistle.

  22. The stevedore conducted me into a dishevelled kitchen, musty and cramped and cobwebby.

  23. Nagsangkiig ang kargadur, The stevedore is tottering under the heavy load.

  24. Hápù kaáyu ning pagpangarga, The job of a stevedore is very tiring.

  25. Nagkargadur siya sa mulyi, He is working as a stevedore at the pier.

  26. Many a stevedore is wearing a medal won in one of these conquests of which he is as proud, and justly so, as though it were a Croix de Guerre or a Distinguished Service Cross.

  27. The stevedore had been puzzled by that boy, who seemed downcast and confused; might have been weeping not long before; drunk, the stevedore thought at first, but he smelled no liquor when the shilling changed hands.

  28. The following day, after dragging out the remainder of a crazed sleepless night, Reuben felt it merely as the confirmation of something known, when he learned that a stevedore had brought Mr. Derry the decisive scrap of truth.

  29. Signs that both the Government and the stevedore had predicted correctly began to show as soon as the vessel cleared the Hook.

  30. It's up to you now, Matie," the stevedore had said to the impatient first officer.

  31. That's nice; hand me all the cheerful news you have when you know they hung out storm-warnings at noon," the officer had growled as the stevedore went ashore.

  32. Finally, the old man turned to one of the Greeks of the stevedore gang, and ordered him to act as slingsman.

  33. All the stowage was done by the crew under the direction of Jemmy the Scrubber, who proved himself as capable a stevedore as he was a seaman.

  34. The gentle master stevedore had his hands very full at last; and the chief mate became worried in his mind as to the proper distribution of the weight of his first cargo in a ship he did not personally know before.

  35. In many vessels carrying passengers as well as freight the heaviest weight is stowed in the lowest hold; this is to steady the ship and is called in the argot of the stevedore "stiffening" the ship.

  36. Engines are puffing, ropes are tugging and derricks lifting heavy freight of every kind to the ship's deck, the orders of the stevedore and the answers of his men mingling with the general din.

  37. The cargo is in charge of the sailing department and is received and stowed under the direction of a boss stevedore selected by the dock superintendent.

  38. To load a great vessel requires the services for several days of 125 men, including a boss stevedore and a couple of foremen and with all the appliances of steam and gearing to assist their operations.

  39. He gave me my first job as stevedore only three days after I got married.

  40. The stevedore was a much larger man, but George got the best of it.

  41. He was a boss drayman, and a particular friend of a stevedore I had whipped a year previously, and he had it in for me.

  42. One night at New Orleans a stevedore tackled him.

  43. There was a fighting stevedore or timber-tower, I forget which, at Quebec, who never had seen Joe Monfaron, as the latter seldom came farther down the river than Montreal.

  44. One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber-tower about Montreal and Quebec.

  45. He came straight from the jetties--that is to say, as straight as a stevedore can be expected to come at noon on Saturday, after receiving his week's pay.

  46. About half past 11 o'clock on this morning a negro stevedore accidentally dropped a box of rifle ammunition near a pile of Hotchkiss fixed, and the next instant the laborers saw smoke ascending toward the ceiling of the basement.

  47. The other battalion was detailed after the surrender to do stevedore work at the commissary depot.

  48. Every stevedore thereupon "steps lively," and apparently his heavy labor becomes to him a light and joyous task.

  49. The stevedore was reluctant to tell his girl that he was doing manual labor and that his only accoutrement was the tinware from which he ate his war bread, "slum" and coffee.

  50. SOME FIGHT An American Negro stevedore assigned to the great docks in southwestern France had written several letters to his black Susanna in Jacksonville, Fla.

  51. One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber- tower about Montreal and Quebec.

  52. Among the notabilities of Cap Blanc, one is bound to recall the athletic stevedore and pugilist, Jacques Etienne Blais.


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