riveter
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
She learned long ago, holding a riveter in her hand, that limits don’t always apply and anyone can forge a path forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
He worked as a riveter for Boeing to help pay his way through UW School of Law, where he graduated in 1958.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
The track’s inspiration — Rosalind P. Walter, a riveter on fighter planes — is widely accepted, as is the model for a Rosie the Riveter illustration by Norman Rockwell.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2018
The “Rosie” behind that song is well known: Rosalind P. Walter, a Long Island woman who was a riveter on Corsair fighter planes and is now a philanthropist, most notably a benefactor of public television.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
