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Example sentences for "work and"

  • Clemens immediately set to work and completed 399 pages of the manuscript, the first eleven chapters of the book, before the early flush of enthusiasm waned.

  • I did a full day's work and a third over, yesterday, but was full of my game after I went to bed trying to fit it for indoors.

  • Clemens cudgeled his brains, but finally declared he must give it up: Mrs. Clemens has diligently persecuted me day by day with urgings to go to work and do that something, but it's no use.

  • It is that they do piece-work and patch-work of reform, instead of plain, direct upbuilding work in the souls and consciences of men.

  • Each has his share of work and dreams; each has his endowment of talent and of opportunity; each has his aspirations and supreme hope.

  • Its first objective is to put men and women now on the relief rolls to work and, incidentally, to assist materially in our already unmistakable march toward recovery.

  • By the same token--a worker here at home may not like the driving, wartime conditions under which he has to work and live.

  • It is essential in our economy that private funds must be put to work and all of us recognize that such funds are entitled to a fair profit.

  • As for me I have my work and I am going to plunge into it as deep and hard as I can.

  • I can't put all of myself into my work and give it to you at the same time.

  • I knew she needed money badly as she wasn't able to work and I wanted to give her some of mine.

  • He had not gone to work and he knew nothing about it.

  • Before they could do God's work and man's work they must first be awakened, filled with desire.

  • But Hester has no work and she is a burden to Judge Whipple.

  • He ran for a spade which was stuck up in the ground at some distance, and soon went to work and uncovered a parchment.

  • Stopping for the exercise three times a day will only take eighteen--or at the most twenty-minutes out of the day's work and it will put much more than that into the work in new power.

  • It sounds well, but let any one take hold of my work and try to do it restfully.

  • We have strained to work and strained to play and strained to live for so long that when the need for rest gets so imperative that we feel we must rest the habit of strain is so upon us that we strain to rest.

  • It is perhaps needless to say that she was a nervous invalid, and in the process of gaining her health she had to be set to work and kept at work.

  • The English, the French, and the Spaniards went to work and stole it all over again; and when that was satisfactorily accomplished they went diligently to work and stole it from each other.

  • A man invests years of work and a vast sum of money in a worthy enterprise, upon the faith of existing laws; then the law is changed, and the man is robbed by his own government.

  • Or to recur to a familiar distinction in modern English, the word really covers both the ground of work and of worry.

  • Do you set yourself, dear brother, to work and try to bring them.

  • It is symbolic of spiritual facts, and prophetic of Christ's work and of our way of coming to God through Him.

  • Brun was troubled by the thought of these thousands of men who came all this way to look for a day's work and had to go back with a refusal.

  • The legal proprietor took over a good piece of work and got it for nothing, and Stonemason Jorgensen stood up in a pair of cracked wooden shoes, with a load of debts which he would never be able to shake off.

  • So Jim went to work and told me the whole thing right through, just as it happened, only he painted it up considerable.

  • Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.

  • Great truly is the Actual; is the Thing that has rescued itself from bottomless deeps of theory and possibility, and stands there as a definite indisputable Fact, whereby men do work and live, or once did so.

  • The greatest value of an industrial plant that has everything but a work to do and a leader to determine its major policies, lies in the skilled workers and able executives in work and office.

  • It is only through work and the combined work and energy of all the men in the organization that anyone can win.

  • Today the work flows through the machine shop in lots of large numbers of pieces of a kind, and each machine, as well as each worker, is kept at one kind of work and usually at one simple operation.

  • You know it's more sensible and comfortable, too, to work and ride in breeches.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "work and" 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:
    finished work; fresh impetus; greater number; original documents; other countries; pretty things; single grain; work again; work entitled; work for; work from; work like; work shall; work should; work together; work was; work with; working capital; working class; working expenses; working girls; working model; working order; working parties; working women; year terms