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Example sentences for "life work"

  • Introduction This talk is addressed to those beginning library work as a life work.

  • This phrase “as a life work” suggests what is perhaps the chief value of a library school training.

  • Berryman acquired a public school education in Walla Walla county and was reared to the occupation of farming, which he has successfully followed as a life work.

  • Then I shall take my post-graduate course in preparation for my life work.

  • It is too easy to take the attitude: "First I will get my education and develop myself, and then I will know better what I am fitted to do for a life work.

  • Even when parents are sincere and try to be wise, choice of a child's life work is very difficult for them.

  • Several inventors have devoted their energies to the evolution of a reliable hand-camera, capable of fulfilling the same duty in cinematography as the snap-shot instrument in still-life work.

  • But in cinematography the ill-effects arising from respiration are not so serious as in still-life work.

  • But one might well wish that all rural parents could realize the evil consequences of being impatient with the son in respect to his choice of a life work.

  • Reviewing the broad field of industrial, commercial and professional activity, he determined upon the practice of law as a life work and in preparation therefor entered Laval University at Montreal.

  • It would be difficult to determine how important has been the life work of Hirsch Cohen, for there is no standard whereby to judge influence, especially when it is exerted along lines of intellectual and moral progress.

  • I am studying the agricultural question from every possible standpoint and I propose to make it a life work.

  • A life work, up to the standard of his highest ideal, was a tribute of devotion he would willingly lay at her feet.

  • In this way, a wise direction of the combined women's movement into a united work along lines in harmony with planetary evolution for the perfection of the race, became an integral part of Fern Fenwick's broad plan for a life work.

  • After much deliberation she had undertaken this work to enable her to wisely prepare and plan for a life work in harmony with her lofty ideas on the subject--ideas which had been slowly ripening in her mind for many months.

  • To them, then, marriage becomes more and more an incident in life rather than a life work.

  • It is these girls who are especially open to the influence of environment, of what may prove temporary inclination, or of false notions of the advantage of certain occupations in choosing a life work.

  • These, then, are the girls who are most of all in need of wise assistance in choosing that which may prove to be a temporary vocation or may become a life work.

  • Many an unwise choice would have been avoided had the girl really faced the possibility of making the work she undertook a life work.

  • But what do you call my life work, father?

  • The old French spirit of roving and adventure has had its day with you, and now you will begin your life work.

  • When Asher had asked, "What do you call my life work, Father?

  • Is this the way you attend to your 'life work,' young woman?

  • Let's just be friends, and let me feel that I have your sympathy and affection in the struggle I am having with my life work.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adult life; crimson satin; earthen vessels; est plus; first cousin; heavy body; irregular intervals; life according; life after; life annuity; life cannot; life for; life forms; life goes; life here; life history; life insurance; life interest; life itself; life saving; life seemed; life when; life worth; naval force; technical language; this good