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Sentences with work

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  • Weiner works for the U.S. Department of Transport. [VERB preposition/adverb]
  • Fewer and fewer people are in work.
  • Can you describe your work to the class?
  • She didn't come to work today.
  • I can't talk to you right now–I'm working. [VERB]
  • We're supposed to be running a business here. I've got work to do.
  • She is trying to find work in publishing.
  • He started work as a car salesman.
  • Linda spends all her time working on the garden. [VERB preposition]
  • There was a lot of work to do on their house.
  • I think I was best in the class because the teacher quite often asked me to correct the work of other children.
  • Many people travel to work by car.
  • It can help to have an impartial third party look over your work.
  • In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work.
  • Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type. [VERB + on]
  • She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer. [V + with/among]
  • The pump doesn't work and we have no running water. [VERB]
  • 95 per cent of these diets do not work. [VERB]
  • I wake at 6am as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours. [VERB]
  • One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image. [VERB preposition]
  • Nevertheless, she is always optimistic about the possibilities and can work her charm on the disenchanted. [VERB noun + on]
  • My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening. [VERB]
  • We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion. [VERB + on]
  • Brand has been working the clubs and the pubs since 1986, developing her comedy act. [VERB noun]
  • They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this. [VERB noun adverb/preposition]
  • The Prime Minister has an ability to work a crowd–some might even suggest it is a kind of charm. [VERB noun]
  • Farmers worked the fertile valleys. [VERB noun]
  • The mines had first been worked in 1849, when gold was discovered in California. [be VERB-ed]
  • Many adults still depend on their children to work the video. [VERB noun]
  • A screw had worked loose from my glasses. [VERB adjective]
  • Work the dough with the palm of your hand until it is very smooth. [VERB noun]
  • ...the machines needed to extract and work the raw stone. [VERB noun]
  • He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay. [V with/in n]
  • Each position will work the muscles in a different way. [VERB noun]
  • The steel works could be seen for miles.
  • ...six years of disruptive building works, road construction and urban development.
  • A work of art
  • Wirework
  • work clothes
  • That salesman works the southern region
  • He works his men hard
  • To work a lathe
  • To work dough
  • To work copper
  • The rope worked loose
  • His face worked with anger
  • To work someone into a frenzy
  • To work one's revenge
  • He worked his way through the crowd
  • She was working a sampler
  • To bring work home from the office
  • A day's work
  • A person of good works
  • The works of Poe
  • Steelworks, gasworks
  • A makeshift arrangement that works
  • Let it work in their minds
  • Putty that works easily
  • His face worked with emotion
  • The door worked loose
  • An idea that worked harm
  • To work silver
  • To work a sampler
  • To work dough
  • To work a nail loose
  • To work a pump
  • To work a crew hard
  • To work someone around to one's way of thinking
  • To work oneself into a rage
  • A salesman working his territory
  • To work one's connections
  • The work done in compressing the spring is equal to the force times the distance through which it acts.The heated gas expands against a piston doing mechanical work.Work is a type of energy associated with a force acting on a large object in order to accelerate it.
  • My work involves a lot of travel. He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
  • Holding a brick over your head is hard work.   It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary. We know what we must do. Let's go to work. There's lots of work waiting for me at the office. Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground. Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
  • We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
  • There's a lot of guesswork involved. We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started.   The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work. It is a work of art. the poetic works of Alexander Pope William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
  • He’s working in a bar. I work in a national park;  she works in the human resources department;  he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentryThis time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. she works for Microsoft;  he works for the presidentI work closely with my Canadian counterparts;  you work with computers;  she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
  • He worked his way through the crowd;  the dye worked its way through;  using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
  • He worked the levers.
  • The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
  • He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
  • She works the night clubs;  the salesman works the Midwest;  this artist works mostly in acrylics
  • work clothes.
  • The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
  • She knows how to work the system.
  • He hasn't worked for six weeks.
  • I cannot work a miracle.
  • The water should not be disconnected while the pump is working.
  • He is working his servants hard.
  • We all agree that this plan works.
  • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about [ …] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
  • The nails worked loose.
  • They worked on her to join the group.
  • His fingers worked with tension. A ship works in a heavy sea.
  • The ship works to windward.
  • This dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well
  • So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago. ”
  • This dough works slowly.
  • She can work many power tools.
  • To work a change.
  • To work butter.
  • To work a coal mine.
  • To work one's passage.
  • She works her employees hard.
  • To work a crowd into a frenzy.
  • To work other people to one's will.
  • See if you can work your uncle for a new car. He worked his charm in landing a new job.
  • She worked a needlepoint cushion.
  • He's at work on a new novel.
  • The surprise party was all arranged, but her little brother gummed up the works and told her.
  • A musical version of the book is in the works.
  • We made short work of the chocolate layer cake.
  • Many people in the area were out of work.
  • Let's shoot the works and order the crêpes suzette.
  • I'll try to work it so that we can all travel together.
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