How to use foreman in a sentence

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• Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.From the entry ranch
• Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.From the entry ranch
• Once the cane season was finished, he followed harvests as a packinghouse foreman.2012, Bryan Mealer, chapter 5, in Muck City, Crown Archetype, page 82. From the entry papa bear
• In such cases, the spokesperson for the family grouping generally approaches the foreman with the family's grievance.1996, Miriam J. Wells, Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture. From the entry family grouping
• The groundman was in the bucket, and the foreman was on the ground.1987, Government Reports Announcements & Index, page 193. From the entry groundman
• Herb Abbott, the foreman, who superintended the whole operation and filled in wherever he was needed.1982, Alice Munro, “The Turkey Season”, in The Moons of Jupiter. From the entry superintend
• Peters, Alfred Morrison, section foreman along with his helper, Frank Lindloft, took off with the pump trolley.1976, J. William Calder, All Aboard, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 118. From the entry pump trolley
• The hatch foreman or gang boss supervises the longshore gang and directs their loading and discharge efforts.1956, Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference (U.S.), “The Longshore Industry and Its Hazards”, in Longshore Safety Survey: A Survey of…. From the entry stevedore
• The stevedore superintendent and hatch foreman occupy strategic positions from a safety viewpoint.1956, Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference (U.S.), “The Longshore Industry and Its Hazards”, in Longshore Safety Survey: A Survey of…. From the entry stevedore
• “Guilty, on all counts,” the foreman of the jury read.2013, Gary Mercer, Guilty On All Counts. From the entry on all counts
• He is the factory foreman, responsible for every ball.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 210. From the entry wicketkeeper
• The foreman knocked once and then entered her office.2008, Jennifer Youngblood, Sandra Poole, Stoney Creek, Alabama, Denver, Colo.: Mapletree Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry wolf call
• My parents sent the foreman, Bill Taylor, down to Newburgh with a load of sticks for the Duncans’ fire.2008, Charlie Allan, “Joe Duncan”, in The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a North-east Farm, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry stickshed
• Watkins notified the shop foreman immediately, whereupon the car was inspected and found to have a broke axle.1983, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Transit News, volume 36, page 8. From the entry broke
• One afternoon his foreman, Joe, passes John's area just in time to see him mismount a piece on dures.1981, Supervisory Management, page 13. From the entry mismount
• Since our last bunch of squiblets Roy Jenkins, night foreman of the Free Press, has joined the ranks of the benedicts.1914, The Typographical Journal, volume 45, Indianapolis, Ind.: International Typographical Union, page 254, column 2. From the entry squiblet
• "Them there apple boxes be cledgy with mud," sasid my foreman, "I disremember it being so rainified since I be a nipper".1993, David Atkins, The cuckoo in June : tales of a Sussex orchard, page 53. From the entry rainified
• It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office.1962 July, “The Irish Scene”, in Modern Railways, page 11. From the entry walkie-talkie
• The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.1960 April, A. W. Bennett, “A Locomotive Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 272. From the entry stop
• All the other groups of employees (foremen, clerks, economists, engineers and top managers) also receive bonusses according to the realized profit of the enterprise.1958, Memo, page 17. From the entry bonusses
• It became necessary to move out some of the stored cars, and the carrier used a track foreman to unspike the switch.1941, Harry Edwin Jones, Inquiry of the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure Relating to the National Railroad…. From the entry unspike
• Armitage and Gaines between them could only guess and speculate until the shift foreman from the paintworks breached the police cordon surrounding the blaze and confronted Finlay direct.2012, Francis Cottam, The Fire Fighter. From the entry paintworks
• In a vacant gesture the foreman began making rounds during breakfast, glad-handing the men as they sulked over their porridge and coffee, reminding them of their fortitude and stoutheartedness.2012, Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road, →ISBN. From the entry stoutheartedness
• "I'll go on the pancrack," I told the foreman, but when I got to the dole office they told me I wouldn't need to sign on.2012, Roy Chubby Brown, chapter 6, in Common As Muck, →ISBN. From the entry pancrack
• A Baptist deacon whom we met in church the next day, a factory foreman, salvaged for us virtually a full service of magnificent rubyware which we still treasure.1986, Carl F[erdinand] H[oward] Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, Waco, Tex.: Word Books, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry rubyware
• The Army provided a yard foreman, sheeters, loaders, and checkers to augment the railway staff of two men porters, one lad porter, and a female clerk.1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47. From the entry sheeter
• The floor manager will then make a thorough inspection together with the foreman to see that all containers, whether of parts or chain, are properly labeled.1919 November, Factory: The Magazine of Management, volume 23, page 1044. From the entry floor manager
• Having no undercutter rigging, appellant requested respondent's foreman to provide one, complaining that his work in a jackpot of large trees without one was unsafe and dangerous.1912 June 18, Supreme Court of Washington, “HENDRICKSON v. SIMPSON LOGGING CO.”, in The Pacific reporter, page 395. From the entry jackpot
• That inadvertently chucked a handful in the fan, all right; the foreman was summoned to the dispatch manager's office and there upbraided for squandering such an asset on mere flatdwellers.1972, James McClure, The Caterpillar Cop, London; Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1992, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry flatdweller
• Armful after armful was hastily stacked, the only pause being when (in the curious way in which these things happen) my own name suddenly caught the eye of the foreman.1919 November 20, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “My Library”, in Not That It Matters, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […]…. From the entry armful

Meaning of foreman

1. noun The leader of a work crew.
2. noun The boss or manager of a particular workplace or section of a workplace, particularly a factory.
3. noun The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

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How do you use foreman in a sentence?

Foreman is used as a noun. For example: “Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.”

What is a short sentence with foreman?

“Foreman found ye too high-tempered for carrying an axe?”

What does foreman mean?

Foreman means the leader of a work crew.