riveter
Example Sentences
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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
As a young adult, he attended art classes at night and took whatever blue-collar work came his way, including dishwasher, warehouse stocker and aircraft riveter.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022
At 97, Susan King still recalls how she came from her family’s home in Virginia’s Lancaster County to work as a riveter, making parts for aircraft at a factory in Baltimore during World War II.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021
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
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
