Sentence examples for dustman from inspiring English sources

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dustman

noun

Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.

  • Oh, my old man's a dustman

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Even for jobs in which linguistic skills are barely relevant, such as for a dustman or an accountant, English-only applicants are in effect shut out.Welsh speakers are the majority in areas inhabited by about 10% of the population (see map).

And each spinner must give the impression that it is a new organisation, not the trash the dustman left behind.

Justin Merritt, a dustman from Essex, claimed the star had rubbed cocaine on Stuart's lips shortly before he died; Merritt repeated the claim under oath at the inquest, where he admitted the News of the World had paid him £30,000.

Detectives are investigating the possibility that he was a dustman after some of the nine sexual assaults on children aged six to 12 took place early in the morning at the time of refuse rounds.

The man - who had a distinctive smell of tobacco and stale aftershave - may be a dustman as refuse carts were heard in the area at the time of some of the early morning break-ins.

After 10 years as a dustman, hospital porter and clerk among other jobs, just to pay for his writing, Banks was published in 1984 and had a huge hit with his debut.

I was delighted to recognize my own dustman, or zabal, in the photograph, only to become disconcerted to read that Hessler had sometimes accompanied his friend Sayyid around the back staircases of Zamalek apartment blocks, and watched as he went through the rubbish of Hessler's neighbors.

Certain details are borrowed from the actual royal family (Henry shares the late Princess Margaret's fondness for singing "My Old Man's a Dustman" round the piano), but Amis avoids direct satire of so pummelled a subject for a more forgiving vein of sublime silliness.

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Some dustmen, like Dickens's Mr Boffin ("the Golden Dustman" from Our Mutual Friend), made a handsome profit from their malodorous work.

Jay O. Sanders brings a wakening vitality to Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's dustman-philosopher father.

On 30 September 1985, Hurd tackled the problems of collection and enforcement of a local government tax that was to be widely attacked as making a 'duke pay the same as a dustman'.

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