hod

Example Sentences

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When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or carrying a hod, stop for a moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better?

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2015

Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010

It had never deserted him in the years in which he lifted himself from stoker to hod carrier to bartender to cop to D.A. to brigadier general in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

To each, the chief warder would hod his head and simply say, “Ja, ja,” and then, “Next!”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela