stoker

Example Sentences

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After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.

From BBC • May 11, 2023

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

It offers stoker coal, both non-treated and oil treated.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019

I want to transfer the contents of the former to the latter in a succession of quick, mindless moves, like a stoker shoveling coal into the boiler of a steam locomotive.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2017

‘Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris-Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn’t awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan