How To Use Workhorse In A Sentence
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They rely on the workhorse loosie to develop the bulk of their momentum.
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Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.
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They're sort of workhorses of the airline industry.
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Thundering across fields remains the preserve of a small band of well-built, farm-ready workhorses with indestructible axles.
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Common diode lasers - the type used in laser pointers and grocery-store scanners - are cheap laboratory workhorses for colors ranging from orange to infrared.
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Motors and drives - the workhorses of many dairy plants - can play an important role in lowering kilowatt hours.
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He's a workhorse on a team that plays hard defensively, but provides little cushion offensively.
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The steam engine was the workhorse of the Industrial Revolution.
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Once running wild, he is now a submissive workhorse with a faraway look in his eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's also near the top of the offensive rebounding charts and is among the NBA's biggest workhorses in terms of minutes played.
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Neither a headline-seeker nor a party rebel, he's best described as a wonk, a workhorse, a doer.
The War on Wyden
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Most users will go for either budget or workhorse models with frequent travellers opting for the ultralight models and power users for the desktop replacement models.
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WASHINGTON - Army and Marine Corps officials knew nearly a decade before the invasion of Iraq that its workhorse Humvee vehicle was a "deathtrap" ...
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The steam engine was the workhorse of the Industrial Revolution.
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If jazzy products and packages are the show horses, a dairy's filling process can be considered the workhorse of an operation.
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Galvanometers are the workhorses behind many laser-based, materials-processing applications such as ablating, cutting, drilling, marking, and welding.
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Herges is the bullpen's workhorse, providing quality innings in middle and long relief.
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What is it that I, wholly unreliable narrator, belittler of common customs, frenetic workhorse, a mixture of dash-punk here and there, an ideological specimen or perhaps a political curiousity to be left as a scabrous object in the cabinet, must promise?
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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There's a practical, workhorse ethic about the school's enology and viticulture programs, where students learn winemaking on a commercial scale.
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The Hercules aircraft has been the workhorse of the airforce for over 25 years.
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‘They've been the workhorses of the industry and are absolutely our best friends,’ the microbiologist says.
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They are workhorses and the one I chose is both affordable and powerful.
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They tend to be more workhorses than show horses.
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Sure, you've got tanks and jeeps, but the real workhorses of this war are helicopters and PBR patrol boats.
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Many of this year's over-caffeinated workhorses sat their first public examination at age seven.
Times, Sunday Times
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Collaborating with the biochemist Edward Tatum at Stanford University in California, Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Coming from Land Rover, which had made its name in producing rugged off-road workhorses used by farmers, the military and police the world over, the new model aimed to continue the tradition.
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THE workhorse world of white van man is suddenly getting a little racier and more luxurious.
The Sun
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The hope now is that slowcoach Europe will lift its performance in 2004, taking some of the pressure off the US workhorse.
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So you can't really beat the old workhorse who puts it there or thereabouts.
The Sun
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It now strikes the perfect balance between workhorse and luxury wafter.
The Sun
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The optional outboard numeric keypad is a real workhorse but unfortunately most often needs to be positioned to the left of the keyboard unless you want to position your right hand mouse really far away.
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As you can see the destroyer is the workhorse of this fleet.
Action '73Canadian Maritime ForcesAircraft, Ships, and Submarines
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His current schedule would have the sturdiest workhorse loosening its collar.
Times, Sunday Times
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I put one into a small basement flat and it has been a real little workhorse.
The Sun
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The Hercules aircraft used by the RAAF are slow by modern standards, but the big four prop engine planes are reliable workhorses used, of course, the world over.
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I buy grapes by the basketful and eat the first pint before I get home, but Concords and their kin are workhorses in the kitchen, too.
Flight of the Concords
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For 25 years, he has been a gangbuster for the United States attorney in Chicago, a workhorse prosecutor who put away dozens of organized crime figures with piercing arguments, a devotion to justice and a gentlemanly style.
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There's a practical, workhorse ethic about the school's enology and viticulture programs, where students learn winemaking on a commercial scale.
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At one time four-wheel drive vehicles were just muddy workhorses, box-like things used by folk who just liked to bump along tracks or plough across muddy fields.
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Junior G Xavier Silas is a prolific scorer (20.4 ppg.) who gets the attention of the opposition, while junior C Sean Kowal is the workhorse in the middle all good teams need with 13.7 ppg and 8.0 rebounds.
Mid-American Conference
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Despite all this, the truck, a workhorse used by farmers and builders throughout the world, still managed to drive into the Top Gear studio after only relatively minor repairs.
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I put one into a small basement flat and it has been a real little workhorse.
The Sun
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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We experimented with teams of Percheron and Belgian workhorses.
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Notches in the sides of big old stumps scattered here and there remind us today of the labouring woodsmen with bucksaws, and the wide shoes of workhorses attest to the method of delivery to the mill.
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Instead, he pulls ten men back and hoofs the ball long, to be chased or held up by a willing workhorse.
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A good workhorse, it was always said, should be well put together with powerful haunches as well as being short-coupled, which meant it must have a short back from withers to tail head.
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Chunky, practical and uninspiring, it used to be nothing more than a dependable workhorse.
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A workhorse of a machine was busy feeding a swath of yellow paper from one of these rolls, mechanically ruling the paper with calibrated pins dipped in blue ink.
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Duck confit has become such a workhorse of the second-rate suburban brasserie and high-street café chain that one almost hesitates to order it these days.
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Lloyd was a workhorse out of the Blue Jays' bullpen in 1999, and that may have been one of the factors that led to his shoulder surgery in 2000.
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Glutamate, incidentally, is the workhorse excitatory transmitter for neurons in the brain.
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In the $25,000 to $100,000 range - the low-end company workhorse - Linux shipments will increase ninefold.
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And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.
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So before you buy one, ask yourself this: do you need a workhorse?
Times, Sunday Times
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These overtly workhorse carryalls will continue to attract many, especially those requiring genuine tough-going four-wheel-drive.
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As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.
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Transistors are best known as the workhorses of the computing world; a computer's microprocessor chip contains millions of these tiny, voltage-controlled switches.
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Analytical scientists should be delighted, because it is not often that those who develop workhorse instrumental techniques are awarded the ultimate accolade for chemistry.
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Communications satellites have become the workhorses in this area due to their effectiveness and efficiency.
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This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce.
News from The Scientist
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Instead, he pulls ten men back and hoofs the ball long, to be chased or held up by a willing workhorse.
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Westwood and McLaren were viewed differently - he as the brains and she the workhorse.
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Edmund kept two horses for himself, but the rest were workhorses for the land or pulling carriages.
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the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world
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Craig says while friends back east are "very chill" about his luxury Hummer, which is based on the military Humvee workhorse, people in northern California aren't quite as tolerant.
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WASHINGTON - Army and Marine Corps officials knew nearly a decade before the invasion of Iraq that its workhorse Humvee vehicle, was a "deathtrap" even with armor added to protect it against roadside bombs, according to an inspector general's report.
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After 26 years of horse power, we sold our six workhorses (yes, we were guilty of ‘get bigger or get out’), completing our switch to using hand power.
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Bacteria from a Yellowstone geyser are the source of enzymes that power a biochemical reaction called PCR, a workhorse of the genome revolution.
What the Spill Will Kill
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Still, Capone called hydropower a "very reliable workhorse" for renewable energy if projects meet environmental standards for issues like fish passage, watershed impact, healthy water flows and water quality.
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They've developed new appliances to handle delicates, dry cleaning, a fancy ironing station, and of course they've redesigned the old workhorse washer and dryer.
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Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.
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The steam engine was the workhorse of the Industrial Revolution.
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Real workhorse in midfield.
The Sun
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This oncidium Sharry Baby’ is a workhorse plant with several blooms through the year.
Bloom Days January 2008 « Fairegarden
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Verdict More reliable than it used to be, a solid web workhorse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glutamate, incidentally, is the workhorse excitatory transmitter for neurons in the brain.
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Extremely rugged and seaworthy, she was the workhorse of the oceangoing vessels of her time.
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Gradually he made a name for himself as (so he put it) a workhorse and not a show horse; his fellow senators came to admire him.
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He was also a great admirer of the weapon: The M60 was a real workhorse.
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A great trier who made the most of his ability, Martin thought he never got the credit he deserved at Forest, but he was a workhorse who scored a goal here and there.