How To Use Put to work In A Sentence
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School age children are being put to work for family business or sent out by their parents to vend in the streets or beg.
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New equipment including GPS and an electronic navigation chart system was put to work and the anchor and cable were nominally relocated.
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Thus, the pay-off on investment was high where there was an expanding labour force with which more capital could be put to work.
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She had come to this country alone, at eighteen, a skinny little contadina from the mountains of Abruzzi, and was put to work a few days later in the garment district of Boston, before she knew more than a few English phrases.
Knowing Jesse
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rescued," when they were put to work, each of them with a kind of shirt of mail, worn over his coat, which could easily be electrized by a metallic filament connecting with the communal dynamo, and under these conditions they each did a full day's work during the Obligatories.
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance
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The Lean Promotion Office should be small, except for periods when excess employees from line jobs are being redeployed and put to work on short-term kaizen projects.
Lean Thinking
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During the war effort it was stripped of all its finery and put to work by a boilermaker in the Midlands.
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Because of his job, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers and was put to work on bomb disposal around the Coventry area.
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Perhaps they could be put to work decorating old buildings reclaimed from irresponsible owners.
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He emerged to discover the city razed, and was put to work clearing bodies.
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Densher must be poor and Kate graspingly ambitious for money and position if they are to be put to work to deceive Milly Theale.
Digging James
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When the Second World War broke out, Crick was put to work for the British Navy developing magnetic and acoustic mines for use against German submarines and ships.
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Unfortunately, Sutherland plays a pony-tailed satyr of only limited charm, and Garner, who is a fine comic actor, is never really put to work.
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Sarant was put to work with Barr, and together, Usdin says, the men "played a catalytic role in creating Soviet microelectronics.
Allen M. Hornblum: Five Best
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Violent recidivist criminals should be permanently removed from society, perhaps by being put to work on an outlying New Zealand island.
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In "The Miserable Mill," they're put to work in a sinister lumbermill where they get only chewing gum for lunch.
A Darker Harry Potter
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As the number of supernumerary troops in the garrisons grew, many were put to work on the agricultural colonies, becoming servants and construction laborers, or pressed into active military service.
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They were put to work in remote areas to fell trees, mine the country's mineral wealth and open up the vast and empty land tracts of the far north and east.
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The majority of the county convicts placed in state custody were put to work on prison farms rather than on road gangs.
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When a quantum computer is put to work on a problem, it considers all possible answers by simultaneously arranging its qubits into every combination of "zeroes" and "ones.
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The monks who didn't know how to write were put to work binding, rubricating, making pens, and the like.
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And even if they keep the world guessing, ambiguities are often put to work in dealing with sensitive matters.
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They were put to work without training or safety equipment.
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The bustling activity grew into a flurry of skillets and plates as Corra joined the two other women and was swiftly put to work frying up a pan of bacon.
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He was put to work digging a quarter-acre section of waist-high grass.
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He emerged to discover the city razed, and was put to work clearing bodies.
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We have on our side of the line large areas that are barren that were formerly covered with trees, and, reforestation is one means, Mr. Chairman, that Canada and its government can take toward replenishing the water supply of the Great Lakes, and thousands and thousands of men could be put to work at that, here, on this side of the line, as they are doing on the other side of the line.
The Disastrous Depletion of The Great Lakes
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Activists say elephant calves are still being wrenched from their mothers to be put to work.
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The old machine was fixed up and put to work again.
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A genuine rebel who could not deal with authority on any level, he had been put to work in Special Forces in Vietnam.
FLOATING CITY
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When the Nazis occupied his country, he was expelled from school and put to work as a construction labourer.
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Today, we are shocked when young children are put to work for pennies a day in India, or China, in conditions of indenture that approximate slavery.
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This indicates a very lean organization where your donation will be put to work, rather than recycled into fundraising efforts.