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How to use navvy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word navvy? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I would like to whizz down but I keep getting my hair caught so I have to stop, swearing like a navvy as I disentangle it.
He was a navvy and had been employed at the new railway which was in the course of construction between Sheffield and Rotherham.
Four years ago, Ben Drew, aka Plan B, was a rapper with an acoustic guitar, a belly full of fire and lyrics to make a navvy blush.
You can have the palate of a navvy and still be able to tell a good burger from a bad one.
At that time, K. Tank regarded this version as a model of transition between A-8 and Ta152 on which it worked like a navvy.
But best of all was Beth Tweddle's retirement bronze – ethereal grace, true grit and the hands of a navvy.
A proud Londoner with a proper cockney accent, Burke is a heroic smoker and swears like a navvy.
Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.
When the Bishop has been here long enough, he will realise that Bradford was built with non-Conformist money, the Irish navvy and an army of desperately poor Britons.
The navvy was certainly not a pretty sight. His muscular arms and legs were all a-sprawl and his head hung back at a strange angle to his body.
Examples from Classical Literature
A duke may become a navvy for a joke, but a clerk cannot become a navvy for a joke.
Till then the navvy, whose only desire was justice, had kept his temper nobly.
He slipped through with a forceful push and caught the navvy by his jacket.
A one-V navy, sea patrol, A two-V navvy, British prole, But I'll bet you have too much savvy to claim you saw a three-V navvvy.
However, they were more commonly referred to as 'navigators' which was shortened to navvy which has become synonymous with a negative image.
He worked as a navvy, he taught in schools, and lectured as a university extension lecturer.
If a middleaged woman swears like a navvy at him he will know he is emulating student behaviour to perfection.
And I was a navvy before the war, and joined up for a change.
It is pleasing to remember that a navvy Battalion followed us!
The navvy was not simply going away, he had the air of a man in flight.
They came from the navvy shelter, and Tom could hear plainly every word.
Digging like a navvy in order to get admission to the abattoir!
His father was former navvy and bargee who worked as a drayman in the Cape Hill Brewery.
Up stepped Robert Metcalf, a navvy on the sight with his magnifying glass to light the flame from the sun, and the locomotion was ready for this first historic journey.
I'd be up front, pedalling like a drouthy navvy in need of a pint, while Judith reclined on the back of the seat, chomping on a Star Bar and taking in the sights.
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