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shape, form, or improve a material
process iron
work stone into tools
work the metal -
to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something
the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold
How To Use work on In A Sentence
- He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
- Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
- Construction work on the barriers began in early 2003 and the estimated completion date is 2011.
- This sort of enamel work on a faceted metal body was copied from the enamelled European watches.
- She needs to work on her interview technique if she's going to get a job.
- It is time to take a look at this most outstanding work on algebra in Greek mathematics.
- Mycoinsecticides are fungal sprays that work on insect pests from the inside out.
- I hope my work on the evolution of cooperation helps the world avoid conflict.
- Note 17: Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, L'Art de faire le maroquin, ([Paris, 1766]). de Lalande also published earlier work on a similar subject L'Art du tanneur ([Paris], 1764). back The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
