stevedore

How To Use stevedore In A Sentence

• As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith. Archive 2008-07-01
• Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
• Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well. Archive 2007-11-01
• The previous day workers blocked vehicles entering and leaving the port and preventing Atlantic Ports Services and Speedline stevedores unloading cargo.
• Thus, the energy a stevedore expends in unloading boxes from a ship is recycled to him in the form of the money which he uses to buy bread.
• Shipment cannot execute within period owing stevedore shortage.
• In this case, cupfuls of frontal lobe, corpus callosum and snowflake-unique collections of synapses that led Miss Mullens to curse out loud with words like “poot” and “jiminy” and yet have internal dialogue like a motherfucking stevedore, as I was to find out to my displeasure when her consciousness exploded into mine as I was lying in the attic, replete, about four hours later. Blood Lite II: Overbite
• The port captain put a two-way radio up to his mouth and called the stevedore. Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2
• A nose broken in his youth made him look more like a stevedore than a lawyer. TIES THAT BIND
• An early worker, a stevedore, saw her there as the summer dawn made the water rosy. COFFIN ON THE WATER