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Example sentences for "much work"

  • Miss, I was not big enough to do much work.

  • Children were not allowed to do much work, because their masters desired them to have the chance to grow big and strong, and therefore they had few opportunities to earn money of their own.

  • There wasn't any time for play because there was so much work to do on a big plantation, but they had good times together even if they did have so much to do.

  • How can you just sit around idly when there’s so much work to be done?

  • Daghan ang mga buluhatun unyà bangaybangáyun pa, There is so much work to do, but you are only dilly-dallying.

  • Nagtangà ka mang daghan tang trabahuun, You’re just standing around when we have so much work.

  • I was nervous and fretful, and could not do as much work as I wanted to do.

  • All this time I have been able to do much work and to oversee my farm.

  • Gentlemen--I was troubled with throat and lung disease for about two years and lost strength so that I was unable to do much work.

  • The man had not done so much work as was required of him.

  • He affirmed that slaves did not do as much work as freemen, and doubted if two affected more than one.

  • He affirmed that slaves did not do as much work as freemen, and doubted if two effected more than one.

  • He said, "These three fellows are as strong as horses, and as patient as mules; one of them can do as much work as two common men, and they are perfectly honest.

  • On this plantation she was obliged to marry a man she did not like, and was often severely whipped because she could not do as much work as the rest.

  • How on earth do you contrive to do so much work?

  • When asked how he got through so much work, Lord Chesterfield replied: "Because I never put off till morrow what I can do to-day.

  • The answer is this--I contrive to do so much work by never doing too much at a time.

  • Perhaps you would imagine that he did not do much work there, but that would be a great mistake.

  • The remaining third perform only about one third as much work as the same number of free laborers.

  • I was able to work as late as 1930, but I ain't been no 'count since to do much work.

  • Teed had said he was going to make Peter do as much work as my sister did.

  • A good hand then naturally did just about three er four times as much work in a day as dey do now.

  • If you don't stop, our axe and parasol 'll walk all round the place, and one 'll do as much work as the other.

  • There would be twice as much work done if the house was up here.

  • The twelve dollars would pay a man who would do as much work as I could, father.

  • I suppose this is reaction after so much work, but unless I can get up strength somehow I shall not accomplish anything.

  • I cannot in conscience ask you to send me anything for its columns, because, poor dear, you have to do so much work on your own account.

  • What the next Pierpont Morgan is for is to find out for us who the competent employers are--the employers who can get twice as much work out of their labour as other employers do--recognize them, stand by them and put up money on them.

  • Put before a man's life twenty times as much to live for and to work for, and he will do at least, well--twice as much work.

  • We will suppose that the master of a household desires only to get as much work out of his servants as he can, at the rate of wages he gives.

  • Why should I work hard when that lazy fellow gets the same pay that I do and does only half as much work?

  • Never have I seen so much work done by two men in a day.

  • The Spaniards have been too much occupied with their affairs in France to give us much work to do.

  • In the millet zone where there was much work to be done the slaveholdings were in many cases very large and the control relatively stringent; but in the banana districts an easy-going schedule prevailed for all.

  • Weston wrote with more elaboration: "A task is as much work as the meanest full hand can do in nine hours, working industriously.

  • To this effect it was customary to plant in corn, which required less than half as much work, an acreage at least equal to that in cotton, and to devote the remaining energy to sweet potatoes, peanuts, cow peas and small grain.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much 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:
    much admired; much afraid; much again; much attached; much care; much delight; much dreaded; much energy; much esteemed; much fatigued; much flattened; much gratified; much higher; much honour; much knowledge; much later; much like; much liked; much mistaken; much need; much nicer; much opposed; much pain; much sorrow; much the same manner; much treasure