How to Use work in a Sentence

work

1 of 3 verb

• She worked through lunch to get the report done.
• She works part-time at the restaurant.
• She is used to working long hours.
• The job requires that you work some nights and weekends.
• I'm not working tomorrow—the boss gave me the day off.
• She has to work two jobs to support her family.
• She works the Northeast region of the state selling insurance.
• She has always wanted to work in advertising.
• I started working when I was sixteen.
• He works about 60 hours a week.
• Google hasn’t shared the specifics of how that will work.
  — WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022
• Pro Tip: Again, work with the lights on to keep your rows even.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 2 Dec. 2022
• If that doesn’t work, pull over and take a quick walk alone.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• She's been working full time at the camp for about a year and a half.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 26 Dec. 2017
• Put it on the altar so that the spirit can work with you.
  — Sarah Betancourt, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2018
• The hope-you-miss defense can work against teams that miss.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• The script was great, as was the cast and being able to work with Mike and Zendaya.
  — Martina Barone, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
• Why this is the case or how this would work is unknown.
  — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2023
• Your body needs some amount of cholesterol to work well.
  — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2024
• The next owner could then decide whether to pay for the seat heaters to work.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 3 July 2020
• Gus is a big goofball who loves to jump around and work for me.
  — Advertorial, Orange County Register, 15 Sep. 2019
• The process is the same as microneedling, which works by rolling tiny needles across the skin.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 9 Nov. 2018
• And the show has some great characters with which to work.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2023
• Detroit did not have a ton of cap space to work with prior to the trade.
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2021
• There’s a lot to build off and work for everyone to do.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Then, head to the mountains, work a little, play a lot, and hope for snow.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2021
• If even some of his plans work, this might be the most important book of the year.
  — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 2 Jan. 2021
• The impact of a leak goes far beyond the people who work on a project.
  — Fortune, 14 Apr. 2018
• In return, the staff and I are honored to work alongside them.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 10 July 2023
• Put your money to work and help others at the same time.
  — oregonlive, 1 July 2020

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work

2 of 3 noun

• Can you describe your work to the class?
• I know him through work.
• She went out with her friends from work.
• A large part of the work is responding to e-mails.
• How long have you been looking for work?
• She didn't come to work today.
• He left work a few minutes ago.
• He started work as a car salesman.
• She is trying to find work in publishing.
• She's not here right now. She's at work.
• As far as the resume goes, there is a lot of work to do.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• Aster, for now, can’t seem to hit two notes at once in his work.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• And thank you for the hard work trying to keep people healthy and safe.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 17 June 2022
• Texas show that one of the sport's biggest blue bloods has work to do.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
• And these days the risks of his work are almost as high as the demand for it.
  — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
• Road plates will be used to keep the streets open during non-work hours.
  — David Ibata, ajc, 13 July 2018
• What Shah once buried in the background, now leads his life's work.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2022
• What's the best part about being with a partner who's in the same line of work as you?
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2021
• For Munroe, the project is a perfect one to showcase her work.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 13 Sep. 2019
• Many of us over-manage the work of our colleagues and teams.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The uniform isn’t so much suit-and-tie as plaid shirt, work boots, and two-day scruff.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2018
• But that work forces her to run deeper into the grief of the country.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• The committee’s work was a driving force in the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
  — Jeffrey Tomik, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• A few months later, the person comes in for touch-up work.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2018
• The work will support thousands of jobs at the shipyard for many years to come.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
• Certainly, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
• That’s when Chef Phil goes to work and starts making phone calls.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2021
• For her makeup, artist Saisha Beecham put in work for this glam look.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 15 Dec. 2021
• There's still work to be done, but that work can be done in ruffles and florals and pink.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Feb. 2019
• Then there’s the lag time between doing the work and getting paid for it.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023

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work

3 of 3 adjective

• What does your work schedule look like this week?
• Much of the technology that makes the place work lives above the store’s shelves.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Much of the anti-work rhetoric seems to emanate from the United States.
  — Scott Schieman, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
• Amazon shoppers say these masks do the trick and are even breathable enough to keep on for a post-work gym session.
  — Eden Lichterman, PEOPLE.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Texting topped the list of non-work time wasters on the phone, followed by checking the weather, reading the news, playing games, and shopping.
  — Amy Capetta, Redbook, 13 June 2017
• With social media star Tess Masazza as his guide, Tucci raised a glass to the Milanese mainstay of the post-work drink.
  — CNN, 21 Mar. 2021
• One employee said that, at a non-work barbecue, a cook pushed him so that his hands landed in a fire.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 July 2022
• The proposals would also dilute pro-work incentives in the tax code.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• Workers stuck at home are breaking up the monotony with more frequent smoke breaks or punctuating the day with a post-work beer.
  — Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• As Monday moved toward stick and puck o’clock, Dempsey logged off and slipped on her post-work treat, a pair of Normatec recovery boots.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2021
• Always agreeing to post-work cocktails or dinners can leave you (and your finances) stretched thin.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
• Those coffee chats, post-work drinks and other gatherings -- all gone now -- have never meant so much.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
• In fact, farmers were told explicitly to keep non-work life outside of the factory.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• The right approach to non-work time can help prevent burnout, improve health and generally make life more livable.
  — Chris Woolston, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022
• Style with a blazer and statement earring for zoom calls, or with an oversized button-down and sneakers for post-work errands.
  — Samantha Costantino, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Table was a favorite post-work hangout for Forkish during the bakery’s first decade, has taken over the pizzeria.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
• All shifts at the building were cancelled, with employees receiving non-work pay.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 4 Oct. 2022
• As mopeds rumbled down nearby streets, neighbors set up speakers for post-work karaoke.
  — Michael Scott Moore, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
• Even if your schedule isn’t flexible, working from an RV puts you that much closer to a pre-work hike, midday ride, or evening paddle.
  — Outside Online, 18 July 2022
• The rest is spent on things like making non-work calls, reading social media and news websites, and even looking for–or working–other jobs.
  — Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2022
• Because of all this, non-work relationships may have taken a backseat.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Employees lit their post-work cigarettes and raced away, music cranked.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Instead of post-work dinners, get into quarantine cooking, read a book, find a new hobby.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2020
• Lastly, who could deny the advantages of having the natural landscapes of the Himalayas at your doorstep for post-work adventures?
  — Shradha Shahani, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2022
• Things like informal conversations, team lunches and post-work happy hour drinks tend to feel awkward and stiff when done over video.
  — Bilal Aijazi, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Barnes found that even though weekly working hours were cut by 20 percent, employees’ time spent on non-work websites fell by 35 percent.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• Where the mothership had to very gradually immerse itself in the idea of doing more than alluding to non-work stories, SVU jumped in with both feet.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2021
• Atoboy is filled with a young crowd, half Korean and half not, who have made reservations weeks in advance, and their post-work chatter creates a pleasant din.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2022
• This wearable massager will become his new favorite post-work activity for melting away knots and neck pain.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 Nov. 2022
• Through the spring and summer months, Pinel traveled constantly for the resurfacing company, spending post-work nights chewing the fat with fellow bowling nerds.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 27 May 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024