stoker

Example Sentences

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His father, a man Stamp once described as "emotionally closed down", was a ship's stoker and often away from home.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

“They are blind,” he thinks, “to Mahmood Hussein Mattan and all his real manifestations: the tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant Wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

Built like a Eugene O’Neill coal stoker, with ears that stuck out and heavy eyebrows above kind eyes, he could read as cuddly or threatening, or even cuddly and threatening, as necessary.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021

A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019

His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti