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Example sentences for "work was"

  • Footnote: Here, too, work was disturbed by his natural history researches.

  • He told me that he must work each day and could never take a holiday, but that even a few minutes' work was sufficient, as all that was necessary was that he should keep an eye on what was going on.

  • I should say that its most frequent work was to build a pons asinorum over chasms which shrewd people can bestride without such a structure.

  • It must, indeed, have been quite too evident to those who had seen him, during the last two or three years, that his life-work was finished.

  • It seemed at first strange to the boys that the dogs could be treated so differently from what horses would have been when the day's work was done.

  • A great roaring fire looked very attractive to all, even to the boys, as they had become quite accustomed to these wintry resting places when the heavy day's work was done.

  • They were very much surprised, however, when informed that the dogs were only fed once a day, and that that one meal was given to them in the evening, when their day's work was done.

  • In February, 1797, work was begun on the church, the remains of which are now to be seen.

  • The following year, or in 1810, work was begun on a newer and larger church of adobes, and this is doubtless the building whose ruins now remain.

  • On the thirtieth of the following October, work was begun, and everything seemed auspicious, when suddenly, as if God had ceased to smile upon them, terrible news came from San Diego.

  • Michael Hale's public room was a good large one, and as soon as the day's work was over, and supper eaten, he set everybody to doing something or other.

  • When the day's work was done, the men were marched back to the huts, where they had to fetch water and firewood, and to cook their food.

  • The bear was quickly skinned and cut up, but he was frozen almost hard before the work was finished.

  • And when that bit of work was finished I was full of a joyful light-heartedness; for my boat in every way was ready for the water, and I was come at last to the good ending of my long job.

  • Resolutely I would refrain from drinking until my work was done.

  • And as soon as the morning's work was done, I was out of the house and away down-town to get my first drink.

  • It must not, therefore, be considered as a matter of astonishment, that the greatest success of my work was at court.

  • And, when her day's work was done, the woman boarded a car for her home.

  • The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons.

  • One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the day's work was over.

  • In fact, the greater part of the education I secured in my boyhood was gathered through the night-school after my day's work was done.

  • She snatched a few moments for our care in the early morning before her work began, and at night after the day's work was done.

  • After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the day's work was done.

  • Both lived in their own families, their wages were money, and they were paid when their work was done.

  • Nevertheless, as grandma was away, I could not leave the place until after the day's work was done.

  • My work was hard, still I remained noticeably taller and stronger than she, who was assigned to lighter household duties.

  • Her mother had also discovered that I was anxious to be helpful, pleased when given something to do, and proud when my work was praised.

  • Some Jewish teachers have thought that Philo's work was a failure, others that it provides a warning rather than an example for later generations of Jews, proving the mischief of expanding Judaism for the world.

  • Saadia's work was carried on and expanded in a great outburst of the Jewish genius, which showed itself most brilliantly in the Moorish-Spanish kingdom.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "work was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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