workpeople

Example Sentences

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Droning the same long story at her about faceless workpeople is very different from brisk storytelling about colleagues she knows.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023

I worked in Mexico for almost a decade, and … one of the things that happened was I’d gotten to know a lot of local workpeople who assisted with excavations, many from low-income rural communities.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2013

At Paris, drowsy tourists and blowsy workpeople heard a hum and saw the Graf Zeppelin in the morning sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

A year ago 9.9% of Great Britain's registered workpeople were unemployed; but the figure crept up to 11.8 last November, and to 12.2 as a bleak New Year came.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certainly the master—as Mr. Thornimett was styled indiscriminately on the premises both by servants and workpeople, so that Mrs. Thornimett often fell into the same habit—was not the brisk man he used to be.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry