Sentence examples for cannery work from inspiring English sources

PROSPECT HARBOR, Me. — The women in their smudged aprons here at the sardine cannery work together in mesmerizing synchronization.

I took their hard-won wisdom to heart, so much so that by the summer of my fifth and final year of undergrad in 1989, their jangly cheers and aching ballads put me on the road to find out (as Cat Stevens sang), tramping up the Alaskan Highway to find cannery work in Bristol Bay.

Her father worked as an electrical technician for Pacific Bell and her mother was a cannery worker and a member of the Teamsters.

Jose worked the night shift at a fish cannery in Los Angeles, and Lidia worked at an insurance company where she is now an analyst.

They lived in shotgun houses provided by the companies that owned both the boats, which were crewed by the men, and the canneries, which were worked by the women and children.

Elser had rescued him from a date with the cannery and put him to work.

After growing up on the Deniston farm, he went to San Francisco at the age of 18 to work in a cannery operated by two of his brothers.

Processing and cannery jobs are essentially factory work.

He also worked at the cannery in Esquimalt and would travel for 2 3 weeks a year to the USA to work picking hops.

I go up to Alaska and work in the canneries.

Working in a cannery and a foundry were the hardest jobs.