Examples of day laborer in a Sentence
They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
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Earlier this year, U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted a three-day raid in rural parts of Kern County targeting Latino farmworkers and day laborers.
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Fahad Shah In Kashmir, the average day laborer earns $8.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
Informal work takes many different forms globally and includes jobs such as street sellers, unregistered taxi drivers, domestic workers and day laborers.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Cleanup brigade The job center was established in 2000 as a place for day laborers to find work, and about 50 to 80 people pass through here each day to find manual labor jobs like building, house cleaning, and moving.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Fahad Shah In Kashmir, the average day laborer earns $8.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
Informal work takes many different forms globally and includes jobs such as street sellers, unregistered taxi drivers, domestic workers and day laborers.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Cleanup brigade The job center was established in 2000 as a place for day laborers to find work, and about 50 to 80 people pass through here each day to find manual labor jobs like building, house cleaning, and moving.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Day laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20laborer. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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