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Example sentences for "workless"

Lexicographically close words:
workingman; workingmen; workings; workingwomen; workis; workman; workmanlike; workmanship; workmen; workpeople
  1. When he realized that I was apparently in a worse position than himself, for I seemed both workless and penniless, we talked of our mutual vicissitudes.

  2. As the house now stands it is the lodger, the workless man and boy, who keeps the floors and stairs and windows clean.

  3. Our object is to find work for these workless multitudes, and such work as shall more than pay for the very humble pittance the Indian destitute requires.

  4. It must be remembered, moreover, that if our efforts to deal with the workless masses in finding them employment should prove successful this will in itself help to remove much of the existing evil.

  5. Why indeed impossible, seeing that millions of acres wait to be tilled and to yield their treasures to the unfed mouths of workless labourers?

  6. We turn from these to the workless tenth and to the other tenth who eke out a scanty hand-to-mouth existence on the borders of that great and terrible wilderness.

  7. Thus, a workless artisan or labourer, desirous of going in search of employment, can at once obtain a way-ticket on proof given of his bona fides, and so equipped he is able to walk any necessary distance without cost to himself.

  8. But the cessation of the workless income will show the downfall of the last of class-monopolies, that of the Plutocracy.

  9. Wandering Minstrels; or, Wails of the Workless Poor.

  10. In those walks the nursemaids and children, and dainty folk, are wandering as usual airing their curls in the fresh breeze; and only now and then a workless operative trails by with chastened look.

  11. I do not know how it is that these workless minstrels are gradually becoming rarer upon the streets than they were a few months ago.

  12. Here at our Shelters last night were a thousand hungry, workless people.

  13. While every poor workless individual made into a wage earner will of necessity have increased requirements in proportion.

  14. We see how quickly a workless man deteriorates.

  15. This time the workless men's wives took action.

  16. The race does not look back to a workless Eden; neither does it look forward to a workless heaven.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    idle; jobless; unemployed