How to Use beaver away in a Sentence

beaver away

verb

• Friedman beavered away at his new instrument, sometimes as long as 10 hours a day.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
• Team engineers have been beavering away, clawing back downforce slashed in the new rule definitions for how cars need to look and behave.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Ahead of the fair, the Deadline International team has been beavering away behind the scenes to draw up lists of our annual Hot Ones in drama, docs and formats.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
• Yet for Selvam the soul of the Tamil country—of India—lies in its village artisans, beavering away all day at their traditional crafts, learnt at the feet of a family member.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026
• In that front line, against the champions on their pitch, only Gabriel Martinelli, who beavered away without much in the way of end product, has been at Arsenal for more than three competitive games.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025