Examples of make-work in a Sentence
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Reports from there have Guard members doing make-work jobs of picking up trash and doing landscaping tasks.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Modest fiscal stimulus and leaving the gold standard did little to bring down unemployment, which remained high despite government make-work schemes.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Sharma, instead of being celebrated as a hero, was transferred out of the district to a make-work desk job.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Unsurprisingly, the small army of senior executives with make-work jobs and self-important titles, who add little to nothing to build Hearst’s brands, apparently made it through today relatively unscathed.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
Building on his research on youth employment, Lerman’s apprenticeship model centered on work experience that could develop skills and deliver services and products that were not make-work.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
For those who can’t or won’t head West, the alternative games offer a make-work project for athletes to continue in some kind of competition, and also to earn money to keep going.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Modest fiscal stimulus and leaving the gold standard did little to bring down unemployment, which remained high despite government make-work schemes.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Sharma, instead of being celebrated as a hero, was transferred out of the district to a make-work desk job.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Unsurprisingly, the small army of senior executives with make-work jobs and self-important titles, who add little to nothing to build Hearst’s brands, apparently made it through today relatively unscathed.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
Building on his research on youth employment, Lerman’s apprenticeship model centered on work experience that could develop skills and deliver services and products that were not make-work.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
For those who can’t or won’t head West, the alternative games offer a make-work project for athletes to continue in some kind of competition, and also to earn money to keep going.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Make-work.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make-work. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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