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Example sentences for "relief work"

  • All who could came to France to help actively in relief work.

  • In relief work, too, you must begin to work on one atom of the problem.

  • Relief work must be constructive with respect to the patient and instructive with respect to the worker.

  • At the same time she took an active part in relief work at Brindisi, and distributed about a thousand dollars' worth of supplies to the Serb refugees passing through that port.

  • Everywhere you go in relief work of this war, you see devices--little things that relieve pain, and save time and speed up recovery.

  • In this, relief work is very much like doctoring a sick {155} patient.

  • Seeing this pitiful and innocently unjust condition of affairs, the result of ignorance of relief work, undertaken with much zeal but scant knowledge and no experience, we sought a way to atone for the mistake, so far as we might be able.

  • One civilian, a Mr. MacMinn, unable to endure the misery around him, opened a relief work at his own expense.

  • Mere distress is not a sufficient reason for opening a relief work.

  • Among them was one urging all people excepting those on relief work or upon especially urgent business to stay away from Halifax for two weeks.

  • One of the workers publicly stated that "Halifax was further ahead in relief work in two weeks than Lynn had been in a month.

  • He was so affected by what he passed through during the explosion and his two days' participation in relief work, that he quite unwittingly took a seat in a train departing for Montreal.

  • All troops in Western New York and all available troops in the Central Department were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to relief work in Ohio and Indiana, if needed.

  • A carload of automobile tires, contributed by an Akron rubber company for use in relief work, arrived on Tuesday.

  • Love, of the Methodist Church, who has had charge of relief work in former years, was again at the head of the relief committee.

  • Mayor of Cleveland getting motor boats ready for relief work in Northern Ohio.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting chairman; certain quantity; coarse cloth; deductive reasoning; five pesos; here give; locum tenens; long standing; long tail; many witnesses; maritime commerce; methylated spirit; paper read; person employed; plainly seen; refined products; relief from; relief party; relief work; relieve pain; she may have been; sound mind; till late; tons register