riveter

Example Sentences

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But like the riveters who persisted, she won’t give up on honoring their stories.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023

In the film, King discussed learning about a Baltimore plant that was training women to be riveters and enrolled in a class with a friend.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

The half-million Black women who worked in home-front jobs included some who worked as welders and riveters, but Ms. Soskin’s experience was different.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021

A dozen riveters and heater boys were at work upon a keel which passed on its float.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

But at the slightest gesture of his pudgy hand, cranes swung up and down, men hauled upon guy ropes, riveters moved alertly forward with their machines.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames