roustabout
Example Sentences
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Shane's father, Maurice, who also described himself as something of a "roustabout", would, he said, try to read James Joyce's famously impenetrable, Finnegan's Wake with an 11-year-old Shane.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
As a former construction worker, he had the foundation, with some additional training, to begin working as a roustabout, assembling and repairing equipment in the offshore oil industry two years ago.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
Downtown features the Oilworker Monument, a towering bronze statue of a derrick and a roustabout wielding a wrench.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Their works and lives were dazzling, disruptive; their “beating heart,” per Calhoun, was the late, incandescent poet, curator and adored roustabout, Frank O’Hara — whom Schjeldahl idolized.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
An ancient roustabout is also looking through the stands but facing the other direction.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
