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Example sentences for "quit work"

  • He wants some one to order him to quit work so he can say to the superintendent that he is afraid to remain at work for fear of personal violence.

  • He held that the men had a right to combine, choose leaders to advise, and quit work if they wished to do so and persuade others to quit work, that the injunctions did not prohibit them from doing so.

  • We go no further than to request the men to quit work and to commit no violence.

  • At last, in some mysterious way, everybody seemed to know all at once, that it was time to quit work, and Harry Mule knew it as quickly as anybody.

  • Flooded last evening just as men were about to quit work.

  • The roof above that entire set of workings, so far as they could judge, had fallen; and had not Tom Evert decided to quit work when he did, it is probable that no trace would ever have been found of him or those with him.

  • In one line it is proposed as an automatic revolution; in another it is said that the militant workingmen are expected to force the others to quit work.

  • We remember that Guerard suggested, in his advocacy of the general strike, that, if the railroad workers struck, many other trades "would be compelled to quit work.

  • Murphy, 338 Walnut Street, a large stucco house with well cared for lawn) "she wants me to quit work.

  • No, Miss Mary, I'm not going to quit work.

  • No,' he says 'if you take it, you'll have to quit work.

  • The understanding was that every man was to quit work and go away, but not to prevent the running of trains.

  • Captain Linden assures me there are no fears of an outbreak in Schuylkill, unless irruptions of striking miners from Luzerne force the men in Schuylkill to quit work.

  • I claim that every free born American citizen, if necessary, has the right to quit work if he wants to.

  • To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

  • To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quit 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:
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