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How to use roustabouts in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word roustabouts? Here are some examples.

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I hear, the boss took on two new roustabouts this morning to help with the canvas crew.
This was a dangerous area, but the skilled roughnecks and the roustabouts went about their business with seamless teamwork.
The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story.
And by the time he's 25, he's supervising 1,500 roustabouts constructing a railroad through the mountains of British Columbia.
The oil industry has also attracted roustabouts, men just passing through who are hired for unskilled labor.
Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade.
Rocky Mountain House has more than tripled in population, and that doesn't include the countless oil and gas roustabouts, drilling maintenance crews, surveyors and the like.
For somebody who has grown up with the stench of oil dripping from filthy laundry, surrounded by roustabouts and crane operators, I've spent surprisingly little time on rigs.
A rig could be brought from Singapore or Perth and there would be opportunities for Hawke's Bay people to work on it as roustabouts and engineers.
McKellen loved to watch the roustabouts put up the tents.
His friends are mostly stage drivers and roustabouts.
There's a severe shortage of roustabouts, riggers, and other men.
She's one of the few contemporary stars who conveys a high ratio of experience-to-age, like those early-era Hollywood luminaries who ran off to become chorus girls or roustabouts at fifteen.
Roustabouts shouting from the crow's nest float like Ascension angels on a ring of lights.
Examples from Classical Literature
I LOVEprogrammes about the hard-working, hard-drinking romantic roustabouts.
Semis with essential provisions rumble north, followed by packs of pickups carrying roughnecks and roustabouts.
That's everyone from the roustabouts to the oil platform managers.
Three occupational areas critical to mining, oil, and gas extraction are geoscientists and engineers, equipment operators, and roustabouts, laborers, and helpers.
It'll be the third time the girls have taken a party to the annual music industry shindig, flying the flag for Birmingham and being general roustabouts.
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