How to Use job in a Sentence

job

1 of 2 noun

• He took a job as a waiter.
• They offered him the job but he turned it down.
• It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
• The blood's job is to carry oxygen to the different parts of the body.
• Construction of the bridge turned out to be a bigger job than they had expected.
• The new factory will create thousands of jobs.
• She's trying to get a job in New York.
• She has a high-paying job on Wall Street.
• The job fell to the school district’s chief of staff, Jose Bueno.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• But is the job now to defend our lifestyles against the climate?
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Drollinger's new gig is being added to a long list of other jobs.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Or use the time to write a book and give everyone a little book job?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2023
• The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• There are many people in this world with a difficult job, and this isn’t one of them.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• And Irani says the bridge's collapse will likely create some jobs.
  — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• Speaker of the House may be the worst job in America, and yet the race to fill it is growing more crowded.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 June 2023
• This app will tell you which job to work and when — and guarantees your earnings each hour.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Its job is to look at short-term and long-term financial fixes.
  — The Enquirer, 26 July 2023
• That's because bleach passes down the drain too quickly to do a thorough job.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
• The case went to mediation, and her boss never lost his job.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Your best clue about finding waders that get their primary job done is to buy a top brand.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The same poll found that 63% disapproved of the job the city government is doing.
  — Jon Michael Raasch, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
• The coolest one on the plane is the in-flight meteorologist because his job is to just scrub that radar.
  — Victoria Kennedy, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• Shane Stephenson got a crash course in firefighting during his first week on the job.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 19 June 2023
• In November, the union named Stutzman to its top staff job as Young, who had been with the union since 2004, departed.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
• The injury slowed his early progress, opening the door for Moss to seize the backup quarterback job outright in the spring.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Lozano and Mitchell had been on the job for roughly 17 years and seven years, respectively.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• So Urbani’s job was to procure those from a hatchery or catch them and then take care of them so they could be released.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
• The same could be set up, Dianne Feinstein, someone else could do that job.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023

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job

2 of 2 verb

• It’s not the actors job to make sure the show is diverse.
  — Jemal Polson, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
• The asphalt mix is then loaded onto 18-ton trucks that transport the mix to job sites.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
• So how does the Trojans job stack up compared to LSU and other top programs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Brewers are hardly the first first-place team to get jobbed in All-Star selections, and there aren't a ton of slam-dunk snubs on their roster.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
• How can job searchers chart a path forward that aligns with their new priorities?
  — Laura Brown, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2021
• Clearly, that one task had been jobbed out to an Indian company.
  — Orson Scott Card, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• How can job environments be places that help people thrive rather than wearing them down?
  — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• The biggest was Vegas, getting jobbed by bad officiating in their matchup with San Jose.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Much of the grainy video featured in the film was shot by two jobbing camera operators hired by Jorge Cysterzpiler, Mr Maradona’s former agent, for a film about the footballer.
  — L.n., The Economist, 27 June 2019
• The Great Resignation is still going strong, and Gen Z is more likely to job hop than generations before them.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022
• The agreement also includes a social equity fund to divert some revenue to job placement and after-school programs, the sources said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2021
• And as the labor shortage stretches on, and workers continue to job hop with abandon, companies are in no place to ignore their wishes.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• Players and coaches will (rarely) never admit that the officials jobbed them - but privately, do Reid & Company think the refs sucked Thurs?
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 24 Oct. 2017
• The wind industry is plagued by slowdowns in obtaining parts from overseas, getting them to job sites and constructing new turbines.
  — Patrick Whittle, The Denver Post, 2 May 2020
• Tomlin responded to a question regarding the Trojans job with an impatient tone and an angry look on his face.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Fundamentally, rush hour is the constraint around which many people have structured their lives: where to live, which job to take, what grocery store to use, when to eat family dinner.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• Rowe tugged on his gloves and started to job onto the pitch before the referees called him back, realizing a player couldn’t be substituted during a shootout.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Should job losses become significant, demand for apartments in Manhattan may drop as people double up or leave the city, resulting in less pressure on prices.
  — Anna Bahney For Cnn Business, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
• And for the first time, lawmakers in Washington are talking seriously about responding with a government jobs program, along the lines of what President Franklin Roosevelt enacted in the 1930s.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• What questions should job candidates be asking to assess a corporation’s commitment to racial equity?
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• Employees have resisted – savoring the flexibility afforded by remote work – and many are prepared to job hop if their company mandates in-person work.
  — Fortune, 26 May 2022
• Mack said in a release that Barnette earned the director of operations job through hard work and will be responsible for many administrative duties, including working with compliance and academic services.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2021
• It’s not the actors job to make sure the show is diverse.
  — Jemal Polson, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
• The asphalt mix is then loaded onto 18-ton trucks that transport the mix to job sites.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
• So how does the Trojans job stack up compared to LSU and other top programs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Brewers are hardly the first first-place team to get jobbed in All-Star selections, and there aren't a ton of slam-dunk snubs on their roster.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
• How can job searchers chart a path forward that aligns with their new priorities?
  — Laura Brown, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2021
• Clearly, that one task had been jobbed out to an Indian company.
  — Orson Scott Card, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• How can job environments be places that help people thrive rather than wearing them down?
  — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• The biggest was Vegas, getting jobbed by bad officiating in their matchup with San Jose.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 6 May 2024