How to Use groundwork in a Sentence

groundwork

noun

• Pence allies have been laying the groundwork for him for months.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The groundwork for several deals was laid at the market.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
• The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• Every time we get contacted by a new client, I’m used to the stylists doing the groundwork of seeking out the brand.
  — Kyle Lamar Rice, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• Beijing has spent years laying the groundwork for the rules that take effect Tuesday.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• The groundwork for what happened to Marvel in 2023 had been laid down for quite a while, in both its boardrooms and its writing rooms.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Starting almost 50 years ago, Blades, who grew up in Panama, helped lay the groundwork.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• In the television era, the fairness doctrine laid that groundwork.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• There's even an argument that the show laid the groundwork for having a Black President of the United States.
  — Starr Rocque, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
• Lovullo seemed to be laying the groundwork for a potential quick hook.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• For Och, the impressive audiences are a result of a more than a decade’s groundwork.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
• Some writers want to go as far as strike right away, while others want to lay the groundwork for more gradual change.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2023
• His comments laid the groundwork for what could be a tense debate over arming campus staff this year.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The song’s distinct rhythm, which would also go on to inspire the Latin hip-hop genre reggaeton, helped lay the groundwork for the Dembow sound.
  — USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• His daughter’s actions laid the groundwork for this hearing.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• However, in a couple of years after he’s done some of the groundwork, the 22-year-old hopes to join some of his Gen Z tech peers by moving to New York.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• Blinken’s meeting with Xi also lays the groundwork for in-person Xi-Biden talks later this year.
  — Time, 19 June 2023
• The high-level talks aim to lay the groundwork for potential negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• All of this laid the groundwork for issues pertaining to AI to become a major flashpoint in this year’s strikes.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Alexa laid the groundwork for our work together beginning a few years ago.
  — Stacy Noblet, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• By then, the couple had pulled their kids out of the school—and Erika Donalds had started laying the groundwork for Optima.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• The plan, adopted in 2019, will lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• That team would lay the groundwork for the investigation that Mr. Smith would take over as special counsel a year and a half later.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Those motions lay the groundwork for what will be the first major legal fight in the case, which was filed in Superior Court in Atlanta last week.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Both are viewed as demonstration projects that laid the groundwork for larger projects like Avangrid’s 806-megawatt Vineyard Wind.
  — Will Wade, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• In 2008, a weeks-long writers strike ended soon after a DGA deal laid the groundwork for the writers’ eventual agreement.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• Now, with Booster back in work mode, his sights are set on laying the groundwork for another bountiful year.
  — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The first two episodes laying the groundwork for what unfolded with Diana and Dodi (Khalid Abdalla) are quite good.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Much of the time before then is spent on a series of scenes set around the family’s zoo that heavy-handedly lay thematic groundwork.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• But, over three days at the Omni Scottsdale Resort just outside of Phoenix, groundwork was laid for what is expected to be a busy offseason for the team.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024