JOB in a Sentence

Learn JOB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
354 example sentences for JOB, such as:
1. Taxes aren't a woman's job anyway.
2. She's decided not to accept the job.
3. He has the ability to do his job well.
4. It's a pity that he didn't accept the job.
5. Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of JOB
job
 n.  any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
 n.  the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Taxes aren't a woman's job anyway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  That's a man-sized job in itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  They're just making a hard job harder for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Between herself and Will, they had done a good job.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I'm having doubts about his ability to do the job.
2  The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job.
3  He has the ability to do his job well.
4  Anne says she can answer for his ability to do the job well.
5  Her record of dismissals casts doubt on her ability to hold down a job.
6  No other organisation was able or willing to take on the job.
7  You must be able to speak French for this job.
8  If we all set to, we should be able to finish the job in a week.
9  Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
10  It's absolutely monstrous to pay men more than women for the same job.
11  Mimi had gotten over her pique at Susan's refusal to accept the job.
12  It's a pity that he didn't accept the job.
13  She's decided not to accept the job.
14  Education now offers the lower classes access to job opportunities.
15  You may not like her, but you have to admit that she's good at her job.