How to Use work at in a Sentence

work at

verb
  • Jordan Janawitz used to work at the bar.
    Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Davis has worked at the factory for about a decade.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • The jail system is not working at all.
    Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • With three remote days, workers can do the bulk of this work at home.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 May 2026
  • Artists can sell their work at the show; the gallery takes a small commission.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Around the time of his death, Patton worked at the Ford plant.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Brason was working at her ice cream shop two doors down at the time of the robbery.
    CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Since then, hundreds more have started working at the mine.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • The whirr of dozens of sewing machines working at once fills the stark, concrete room.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Turns out their partner, who works at the store with them, leaves these notes on all take-out and pickups.
    Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 15 July 2026
  • Not all of my members work at the same level nor have the ability to.
    Nancy Pulciano, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The man who was killed was a civilian who was working at the location.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • Even people who are known for work at Paramount are speaking up.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Sean Humphrey now works at one of the treatment programs that helped him in his time of need.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • The employee said two of the people who died worked at the motel.
    ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • But atom lithography has not yet been proven to work at commercial scale.
    Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • The demo kept loading or didn’t work at all across multiple tries.
    Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Through Sunday, Fechter works at the expo.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
  • His favorite thing about working at Caspers is the customers.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • Ginsberg plans to hire some people with Down syndrome to work at the cafe too.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • Ibrahim, Fatme’s older brother, who had been at work at the time of the strike, was there, too.
    Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Self gives his team high marks for work at summer practices and weightlifting sessions.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026
  • Prince works at the school in the deaf and hard of hearing services and came to the team when Wallace did.
    Caleb Otte, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
  • For many of those years, Oliphant worked at the Washington Star.
    Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
  • Our parents were very much plugged into charitable work at the soup kitchen.
    Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Vuong shared a memory about watching talk shows while working at his mom’s nail salon.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • People are working at, like, 110%.
    Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Relatives said Alanis had spent a decade working at the farm.
    Russ Bynum, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • Johnson lives in Olathe with her husband, Cameron, who works at Garmin.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • Ewing said that some roads in the area would be closed as first responders continue to work at the scene.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026

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