day laborer
Example Sentences
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Ricardo, who earns a meager income as a day laborer, shares his small single-family house with 18 other people, including his three children, parents and other extended family.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Fiction at Sundance this year, “Trokas Duras” is a lush depiction of a day in the life of a day laborer, or jornalero, in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
A day laborer, an organizer, a serenader, a skilled cumbia dancer and, now, an actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Pedro Vásquez Perdomo, a day laborer who is one of the plaintiffs on the Southern California case challenging racial profiling by immigration enforcement, has said the case is bigger than him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
"Then I certainly must despair of cure; you must yourself know that to carry on the work of a day laborer in my position is impossible."
From A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner
