How to Use do the job in a Sentence

do the job

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  • Take note, no one is asking you to do the job of a recruiter.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • If not, the state has proved more than willing to step in and do the job for them.
    Elizabeth Chiarello, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Martin will be back in 12 hours to do the job all over again.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The two-foot length is small enough to store and transport but long enough to do the job right.
    Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There’s 20 guys in line behind you that could do the job just as well.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • So if bits of snake, tree and rope can do the job, why bother with the elephant?
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Lean requires that workers do the job the same way every time.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This piece of cookware can do the job of so many different pots and pans.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Still, one of these apps will probably do the job for most people.
    PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Some just throw in the towel and count on hollow wall anchors to do the job.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Re-set your body, re-set your body and try to do the job you're called to do tomorrow.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Re-set your body, re-set your body and try to do the job you’re called to do tomorrow.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But the first few devices produced didn’t do the job well enough, either.
    Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There are other technologies that do the job for one-tenth of the cost for fiber-class speeds.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • Use no more than necessary to do the job, often only a light mist.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
  • But, in a pinch, my kids can do the job; try putting an 8-year-old behind the wheel of the plow truck.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Metal racks for the microwave or toaster oven can also do the job.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Seabuckthorn oil is full of natural fatty acids that do the job.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And that’s good enough to do the job of active noise cancellation.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The spoilsports need to get back to their home state and do the job which their constituents elected them to do.
    Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Rather, the heat from the screen and the rest of the components passively do the job.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
  • For people who like to roll out their tools to see them all at once, organizer will do the job.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 3 Dec. 2022
  • If it's been years since the window washers last came, hire a service or do the job yourself.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Such groups often hang out for hours in the kitchen, and a quick cabinet refacing would do the job.
    Karen Kreider Yoder, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • When hanging the lights in hard-to-reach places, use a sturdy ladder and never do the job alone.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The next commander-in-chief has got to be able to do the job of commander-in-chief on day one.
    Elizabeth Heckman, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But where there’s a will, there’s a way—and, apparently, a crane available to do the job.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • Wind cannot move this weighty pollen; bees, butterflies, and a host of other creatures must do the job.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2025
  • That’s not about his ability to do the job — or at least not solely about his ability.
    Sam McDowell 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Nov. 2025
  • So is sending in the Guard to do the job that Democrat mayors will not do.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025

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