How to Use do the job in a Sentence
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In that regard, the city has enough resources to do the job.
—Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
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The two-foot length is small enough to store and transport but long enough to do the job right.
—Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2023
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But, in a pinch, my kids can do the job; try putting an 8-year-old behind the wheel of the plow truck.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2022
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These are very basic and do the job for smaller chests.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
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Since the port’s cranes were too small to load the bigger rockets, a floating 100-ton crane was brought in to do the job.
—Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2023
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This piece of cookware can do the job of so many different pots and pans.
—Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2023
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There are other technologies that do the job for one-tenth of the cost for fiber-class speeds.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
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Lean requires that workers do the job the same way every time.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
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These Belkin headphones do the job, with 30 hours of battery life and a sturdy build.
—Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 11 July 2023
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But the first few devices produced didn’t do the job well enough, either.
—Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
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The next commander-in-chief has got to be able to do the job of commander-in-chief on day one.
—Elizabeth Heckman, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
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But where there’s a will, there’s a way—and, apparently, a crane available to do the job.
—Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
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For now, there are clearly limits to how well AI can do the job of a human on its own.
—Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 24 June 2023
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Such groups often hang out for hours in the kitchen, and a quick cabinet refacing would do the job.
—Karen Kreider Yoder, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
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And that’s good enough to do the job of active noise cancellation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
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Among Democrats, only about three-fifths thought Biden had the mental wherewithal to do the job.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2 July 2024
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In most healthy adults, these tricks typically do the job.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
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For people who like to roll out their tools to see them all at once, organizer will do the job.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 3 Dec. 2022
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The reality is if the Nuggets are going to dare other players to beat them, those guys have to step up and do the job.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 May 2024
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Seabuckthorn oil is full of natural fatty acids that do the job.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
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Sometimes, lightweight children’s tools will do the job.
—oregonlive, 29 May 2023
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Still, a good portion don’t believe either party can do the job, per Pew.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
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The gun is chambered initially in .30-30 Win., which will do the job nicely on hogs at closer ranges.
—Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2023
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The farm workers offered help in cutting the tree down, but the child usually wanted to do the job himself.
—Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 7 Dec. 2022
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For more than three decades, he's taught countless people how to ski and ride and has even trained his fair share of instructors how to do the job, too.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
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Small and medium-size bark chips can do the job with a 2- to 3-inch layer, while straw and leaves can be distributed 3 to 4 inches deep.
—Dan Vierria, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
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Take advantage of a pleasant September day and do the job now.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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Speaking from her Vermont home, Jones says the biggest mistake a recipe can make is not to give cooks the necessary tools to do the job.
—Bill Daley, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
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This detergent is gentle on fabrics, yet tough enough to do the job and get your clothes looking their best.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2023
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Biden, his campaign and his supporters maintain that the president is the best candidate to defeat Trump and is prepared to do the job for another four years.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 10 July 2024
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