How to Use worked in a Sentence

worked

adjective

• The unit cost has risen owing to inflation and upgrades, but the scheme more or less worked.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Oversized and re-worked button-down shirts have become a modern default for many.
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Always cut your biscuits close together to reduce the amount of scraps that need to be re-worked.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
• George Bush, how worked for, he was attacked in a pretty unrelenting way.
  — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
• The orthodontist worked days, and, of course, the tooth fairy has to work every single night for eternity.
  — Lucas Kavner, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
• Its mainplate and bridges are made of solid 18-karat rose gold that is open-worked and meticulously finished.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Chef Rametta learned that from his mother, Kimiko, who wasn't a chef but always worked magic in the kitchen.
  — Carol Wolfram, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
• Fifty-five percent worked year-round, while 15% worked only during school breaks and 6% worked only during the school term.
  — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2017
• The struggles were a product of offseason swing changes that never quite worked and an inability to return to his old form quickly.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 29 July 2017
• With all the wheels on the bus, Derulo entered the picture and their re-worked duet arrived in May, sparking the song onto the charts.
  — Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 21 July 2021
• Parker said the plan isn’t perfect but worked for retailers, environmentalists and the city government.
  — Lance Dixon, miamiherald, 27 Apr. 2017
• Michigan's philosophy of rotating backs, keeping everyone fresh and working as a collective worked once again.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2017
• That more or less worked with spaghetti alla chitarra cacio e pepe ($23) but not so much with whole wheat tagliatelle with beef pork and veal Bolognese $25.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• The Resolution Foundation has proposed a job-sharing initiative where two people work part-time on the same role, with the state paying for non-worked hours.
  — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Many migrants who are fleeing worked informal jobs before the pandemic, and were especially vulnerable to falling into extreme poverty as economies tightened last year.
  — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• Apparently, their strategy - resembling the Zero Covid policy of countries such as New Zealand - has more or less worked.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Downtown space is too expensive, and UMass Amherst’s nearly 60-acre agricultural property in Waltham never quite worked.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Geodesic domes, initially designed as the ideal solution to a post-WWII housing shortage, never quite worked.
  — Josh Kramer, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
• The Westminster of the mid-1800s was a marvel of its day, employing cutting-edge technology — such as air-conditioning, which never quite worked, freezing everyone in winter, stifling them in summer.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• This move came amid an effort to refocus the Countering Violent Extremism program (which had historically worked to counter propaganda and recruitment from terrorist groups of all stripes) exclusively on combating Islamic extremism.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Feb. 2018