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.
• That's just not how this works.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• Some may want to work from home.
  — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• Are these two gonna work it out?
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
• The changes have worked — and then some.
  — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• Choose what works and let the rest fall away.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
• It's been a long road, and he's worked so hard.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
• Others had worked with you for years.
  — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
• Give them the space to process this in the way that works for them.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• Pop isn’t supposed to work this way.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
• And isn't that how it's supposed to work?
  — Liz McNeil, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Lead with heart or mind, as either could work now.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
• There are times and places where humor just doesn't work.
  — Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• This method worked well for me, and the costume fit her well.
  — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
• Thighs are my preferred cut, but legs or wings can work, too.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Gus is a big goofball who loves to jump around and work for me.
  — Advertorial, Orange County Register, 15 Sep. 2019
• What works for you will depend on your health, strength, and goals.
  — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
• We’re never told where this item came from or how the thing works.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• She's been working full time at the camp for about a year and a half.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 26 Dec. 2017
• Each hunter working alone can catch a hare, but hares aren’t very meaty.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
• Crews expect to work with ice well through March.
  — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026

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.
• Our work has to match the want.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• The same goes for his work life.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
• About half work full- or part-time.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• The artists were paid for their work.
  — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
• She would not be paid for this work.
  — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
• All your friends don’t like to do work.
  — Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
• From there, Suarez went to work.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
• In a way, his work will still light up our screens.
  — Scott Simon, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• Matt's wife Julie called him at work.
  — Cheryl Fiandaca, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
• Clapham has had some work done on the car this past year.
  — Laura Lane, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
• Young men are the worse for it, in both work and love.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
• What steady choice builds real trust at work?
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2026
• That work has given us a front-row seat.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• The main takeaway is that hard work does pay off.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
• Aster, for now, can’t seem to hit two notes at once in his work.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• What has this work taught you about yourself?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
• Want to get ahead at work with AI?
  — Natalie Wu valentina Duarte, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
• Want to get ahead at work with AI?
  — Brian Page, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2026
• Want to get ahead at work with AI?
  — Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
• Want to get ahead at work with AI?
  — Renée Onque, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026

work

3 of 3 adjective

• What does your work schedule look like this week?
• Or dinner, or just a post-work stroll.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 June 2026
• That's nine months of post-work daylight!
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
• Musk has been the most sweeping in his vision of a post-work future.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2026
• The problem, though, is that farming is still work for humans.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2017
• Much of the technology that makes the place work lives above the store’s shelves.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Since the pandemic, some people seem more likely to stay home than seek out a post-work pint.
  — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
• Loktev is currently work on it.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
• 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
• And so for me, travel always meant doing something that was almost work.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2019
• Much of the anti-work rhetoric seems to emanate from the United States.
  — Scott Schieman, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
• Take this versatile look from the office to post-work drinks seamlessly.
  — Amanda Le, InStyle, 21 May 2026
• As mopeds rumbled down nearby streets, neighbors set up speakers for post-work karaoke.
  — Michael Scott Moore, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• Employees lit their post-work cigarettes and raced away, music cranked.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• The proposals would also dilute pro-work incentives in the tax code.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• All shifts at the building were cancelled, with employees receiving non-work pay.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Because of all this, non-work relationships may have taken a backseat.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• 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
• There’s also an anti-work sentiment in certain soft life circles.
  — Essence, 15 Aug. 2025
• Instead of post-work dinners, get into quarantine cooking, read a book, find a new hobby.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Both are small enough to fit into your daily commuter or overnight bag — ideal for some post-work recovery or mid-flight self-care.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
• 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
• This wearable massager will become his new favorite post-work activity for melting away knots and neck pain.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 Nov. 2022
• This enables me, the rest of the leadership team and every team member to focus on non-work things and decompress.
  — Turcois Ominek, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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