How to Use stoker in a Sentence
stoker
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Stamp, the first of five children born to a tugboat stoker, grew up in London as bombs fell during World War II.
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Angela Yang,
NBC news,
17 Aug. 2025
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Carlson, a stoker of animosity toward Israel and Jews.
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David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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His father, a tugboat stoker, was often away, and young Terence found solace in films, idolizing Gary Cooper and James Dean.
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Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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Rivers of Babylon, written in 1991 by the Slovak author Peter Pišťanek, tells the story of a young, simple-minded, and broad-shouldered ex-soldier called Rácz who leaves his impoverished village in the Slovakian countryside to work as the stoker of a hotel in Bratislava.
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Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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The son of a tugboat stoker for the merchant Navy, Stamp spent years toiling in the swinging 1960s' rising advertising industry before winning a scholarship to undergo classical training at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Ryan Coleman Updated,
EW.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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According to the British Film Institute (BFI), Stamp’s interest in acting began after his mother took him to a local cinema to watch the 1939 film Beau Geste, though his father, a merchant navy stoker, had encouraged him to pursue something more practical.
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Chad De Guzman,
Time,
18 Aug. 2025
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