JOB in a Sentence

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354 example sentences for JOB, such as:

1. Taxes aren't a woman's job anyway.
2. Her age disqualified her for the job.
3. I am pleased that you have a new job.
4. They're just making a hard job harder for me.
5. She seems fairly settled in her new job already.

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 Meanings and Examples of JOB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
job
 n.  a responsibility or duty
 n.  the regular work that a person does to earn money
 n.  a particular piece of work
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  It was long past the dinner-hour when the job was done, and Ethan had to give up going to the village because he wanted to lead the injured horse home and wash the cut himself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  "She didn't do a very good job on any of the three of us," said Stuart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  But fire or no fire, her job was to get herself back into the bedroom before she was discovered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Taxes aren't a woman's job anyway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  She had been so engrossed with the job of making Tara produce she had paid little heed to what was going on in the world outside.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Will had told her he looked quite prosperous since he got his new job with the Freedmen's Bureau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  The doctor says that if they do hang him it will be the first good honest job the Yankees ever did, but then, I don't know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Scarlett wondered how he managed so onerous a job in his condition but asked no questions, realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  That's a man-sized job in itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  They're just making a hard job harder for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  If necessary, she would bully Frank into giving him a job in the store, make Frank turn off the boy he now had behind the counter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Between herself and Will, they had done a good job.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  This shouldn't affect the likelihood of you getting the job.
17  One of the requirements of the job is fluency in two or more African languages.
18  After weeks of frenetic activity, the job was finally finished.
19  She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if I'd let her.
20  I'm not going to let him repair my bike again because he made a really bad job of it last time.
21  She was late again and was dismissed from her job.
22  Her age disqualified her for the job.
23  With the current job situation, age discrimination in employment is becoming more common.
24  She got her first job through an employment agency.
25  Her job is to go round the big fashion shows sniffing out talent for a modelling agency.
26  She seems fairly settled in her new job already.
27  The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension.
28  I am pleased that you have a new job.
29  A successful job search needs to be as well organised as any other executive task.
30  I am in a rather unique position, as my job is different from anyone else's.