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Example sentences for "work like"

  • I must omit, of course, in a work like this, intended for young women, the mention of any motion more rapid than walking.

  • Surely they ought to be glad of a work like that I have described.

  • The state of letters at Rome, while unfavourable to strictly political history, was ripe for the production of a work like Livy's.

  • In a work like this it would be obviously out of place to offer any minute criticism either upon the beauties or the difficulties of the Georgics.

  • The difficulty of forging a work like the Satyricon will better appear, when it is considered that such attempts have been actually made.

  • It is therefore among the postulates of a work like this, for Scotland, that its vital statistics should be imperfect.

  • I'm tired of dawdling, and mean to work like a man.

  • We'll work like bees, and love it too; see if we don't!

  • The man next to me was rather put out by this activity and said that if he wanted to work like that he could do it outside.

  • I work like one of the things I kill every day--I kill hundreds of them, thousands of them every day.

  • This ain't no place to work like that," he said; then he began to expectorate over my block and annoy me in that way.

  • We can only give the outlines of the subject in a work like this.

  • In a work like this, it is only desirable to give those general principles that will enable the cultivator of the soil to raise such trees as he may desire on his own premises.

  • It is not to be expected that we should go into it at length in a work like this.

  • We believe that Frederic would not have said this of a work like that of M.

  • It is true that all this would hardly be sufficient to secure a decided success for a work like his at the present day.

  • There was room, therefore, at that time for a work like the “Ship of Fools.

  • May Lily, strong and willing, went to work like a small cyclone.

  • I'll have to work like a beavah this next week to catch up.

  • Men that was too triflin' to draw the breath o' life under me work like puffin' steam-engines for him.

  • I had to work like a nigger an' I'm none the worse for it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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