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Example sentences for "useful work"

  • Illustration: THE PACE THAT KILLS] There is no hope for moral purification among the wealthy until such time as they will use their time and talents in useful work.

  • An enormous field for missionary work would be for some one of ability to convert the wealthy world to the religion of useful work.

  • Here is employment in God's sunlight and air, where criminals can do useful work, and still be under watchful guard.

  • The hysterical lady on Fifth Avenue and the psychasthenic old maid in the New England country town both simply have to learn to do useful work with a concentrated effort and a high purpose.

  • The idea of care for the health in many persons' minds seems to be to do as little as possible of external, useful work and to occupy themselves principally with their internal concerns.

  • Suppose that a reversible engine R, working in the cycle above described, takes a quantity of heat H from the source in each cycle, and performs a quantity of useful work Wr.

  • The process might be repeated indefinitely, and we should obtain at each repetition a balance of useful work Ws - Wr, without taking any heat from the source, which is contrary to experience.

  • We must, above all, train our wills as a means of useful work.

  • Without the living spark of love, we may have the appearance, but never the spirit, of useful work or quiet content.

  • We are using the will normally when, without repression or unnecessary effort, we are directing the muscles and nerves in useful work.

  • It would compel all men to do some kind of useful work.

  • Public provision of useful work at not less than trade-union rates of wages for the unemployed.

  • As his Poor Law duties crowded heavily upon him he had opportunities as a Guardian of carrying out in his own district his guiding principle in regard to the provision of useful work.

  • If the Local Government Board would permit Guardians to take land, this man could be put to useful work.

  • Plenty of useful work can be found with care and organisation.

  • But the hunters do not want to have any of the elephants killed or injured, as they want to catch as many of them as possible in order to teach them to do useful work.

  • One day the elephants were taken to a place ten miles away to do useful work, such as to pile timber for building a bridge.

  • Rest, recuperation, relief can be found in a proper alternation of forms of useful work.

  • Does the case stand otherwise with the other psychological principle appealed to, namely, the need of an incentive of personal profit to keep men engaged in useful work?

  • Confucius is the first man in point of time to proclaim the divinity of service, the brotherhood of man, and the truth that in useful work there is no high nor low degree.

  • It has been previously stated that premature or belated ignition of the explosive mixture appreciably lessens the amount of useful work performed by the expansion of the gas.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "useful 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:
    about half the length; acid solution; black pigment; during the same period; four fathoms; gave each; gentleman from; glad when; grande dame; half step; incredibly short; interfere with; named from; narrow lane; not exactly; pyrogallic acid; radio receivers; regular form; soft steel; sought after; support life; useful knowledge; useful labor; useful purpose; useful purposes; useful work