Sentence examples for worked as fishermen from inspiring English sources

Some worked as fishermen but most spent their days by the dock, looking for work unloading crates from the dozens of small freight ships in the harbor.

For centuries, Samis who lived by the sea worked as fishermen, while those inland led nomadic lives, following their reindeer herds around winter pastures in the interior to lands near the coast in summer.

The earliest immigrants worked as traders, although most of the later settlers worked as fishermen, farmers or conscript labourers.

My father is a cobbler, but many of my ancestors worked as fishermen on the Grand Banks or as whalers.

The Malays were the second largest ethnic group until the 1860s and they worked as fishermen, craftsmen, or as wage earners while continued to live mostly in kampungs.

"My father and uncle still work as fishermen but they detest it here.

Some refugees work as fishermen, and others grow vegetables, but most struggle to have variety in what they eat.

The first settlers came to the islands to live off the land, working as fishermen, ranchers and farmers.

According to the United States Department of Labor, as of 2004, there were approximately 38,000 people working as fishermen in the United States (US Labor, 2006).

For centuries, the community's livelihood revolved around the Arsenale, the shipyard that laid the foundation for Venice's power, and today many residents still work as fishermen or in shipyards.

There are no beaches on this stretch of coast, so tourism has passed Marano by, and it remains a functioning port, with 300 of its 2,000 inhabitants still working as fishermen.