How to Use working in a Sentence

working

1 of 2 noun
  • The airy working space is home to small shrines of the movies Hardwicke’s directed over the last two decades.
    Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The union’s workings are complex and the proposals are very broad.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Feinberg posed the question of how much guidance Field gave to Blanchett in the film’s working process.
    Josef Woodard, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The union of train workers are fighting to bring working hours down from 38 to 35 hours, while on full pay.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The changes to the number of working royals in recent years has not changed the line of succession.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In 1888, the baker’s union went on strike in Buenos Aires to protest working conditions and wages.
    Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • This equates to more heat, giving the harder tires a higher working range.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The growth of hybrid working has blurred the lines between work and personal life.
    Anna Shields, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • She’s got a working list of about five women whose stories haven’t been told — or told deeply.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Even with so many people working from home with their filthy athleisure and their overnight oats, the day belongs to the working.
    Mark Healy, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Without an agreement over pay and working conditions, the union may go on strike for the first time against the studios since 1980.
    Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • Last week, Jackson-Reed High School was down to one set of working bathrooms for 2k students!
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The report also found that just 52% of working-age women in Alabama are in the workforce.
    Jemma Stephenson, al, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Positioned in the back of the home, the library is a quiet space for working, reading or doing homework.
    Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Iowa, meanwhile, approved a bill this year that extends legal working hours for 14- and 15-year-olds.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That is really my normal way of working, and that is my preferred way of working.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The workings of her family dynamic often come up on the show.
    Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The colorful wheely case opens up to reveal test tubes, a beaker, safety goggles, a working scale, and other tools.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Those plans will face setbacks if SpaceX can’t quickly get its launch site and its massive new rocket working.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • On the flip side, the main mental health drawback of remote working is social isolation.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Nannini, who has been a working photographer since the late 1970s, felt the concept could make for a compelling project one day.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • As for jobs, the employment rate among Americans in their prime working years is at its highest level in more than two decades.
    Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Starting in the 1960s, her book traces two competing visions for women’s working lives.
    Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Email is a critical part of most professionals' day-to-day working life.
    Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Sunglass cases with fewer working parts like hinges and snaps tend to last longer as there are fewer components that could break.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
  • The papers under scrutiny involve lab research on the workings of cells.
    Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Europe, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The pandemic and the spread of remote working allowed workers to keep their jobs but move to places where housing is cheaper, and that is likely to continue.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Until now, the submerged workings of this giant machine have been hard to see and appreciate.
    Helen Czerski, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The batch of weapons provided to Ukraine were inspected and deemed safe and in working condition, said a U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the transfer process.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The suit claims that the Charlotte office did not have the right working conditions for Billesdon because of bathroom locations on the opposite side of the building where his groups were situated.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
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working

2 of 2 adjective
  • There is a good working relationship between the departments.
  • The 41st floor will have two pools, along with a lounge, bar, kitchen, and co-working space.
    Shonda Novak, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • How The Wing is adapting its co-working structure for the work-from-home era.
    ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Squeeze your core and extend your non-working arm out to the side for balance.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 25 July 2022
  • But many in the town are mourning the loss of the smokestacks, which are seen as a symbol of its working-class ethos.
    Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Her appeal seems to be to a more working-class right-wing electorate than his.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
  • It’s a searing portrait of a working-class man who has struggled all his life to achieve.
    Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
  • How are non-working men between 25 and 54 spending their time?
    Tony Dokoupil, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The center has been a working hospital that takes in all species of sea turtles for more than 30 years.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The top floors would be transformed into a co-working hub with office and meeting space.
    Dustin Wyatt, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The Clubhouse, an all-day co-working space, is another of Heimat’s offerings and sits on the fifth floor.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 July 2022
  • Whitman would over the years form attachments with a number of young working-class men.
    Miguel Morales, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • At 35, Barnes is close to half his age and the product of a working-class Milwaukee family.
    Brian Slodysko, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Fortunately, a co-working art space opened just a few blocks away.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • How many know how to make a working pair of mukluks from materials at hand?
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There's a certain buzz and sense of place that comes with dining within arm's reach of a working waterfront.
    Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
  • Well, my mother was the 13th of 14 children of a working-class, London family.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The market's west wing is home to co-working space The Platform, and the middle section between the two wings is home to the market's food court and other vendors.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Instead of the Amazon River, open sewage now runs past their porch in a working-class neighborhood.
    Fabiano Maisonnave and Eraldo Peres, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Those rates are now less attractive for a working-class buyer.
    Mike Gousha and John Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Gun owners who brought in a working assault rifle received $300 on a gift card.
    Marissa Evansstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2022
  • Jay Jones, who grew up in a working-class lumber community, had tried to do the same at their café, but was voted down.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In January, 2018, Quadir launched her own fund, from a co-working space in Manhattan.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Very working-class Catholic upbringing, where the ultimate career was to be a priest.
    Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 June 2022
  • Brown also has plans to create more awareness for the 224′s new Business Growth Center, which is its co-working space.
    Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2023
  • There’s also a new co-working office space nearby, Moser said.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Non-working royals, like Prince Harry and Prince Andrew, are in black mourning suits.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Other Kitchen, and a members’ club encompassing lounge space, a screening room, co-working space and a serene wellness area.
    Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Porter’s small, unassuming campaign office is tucked into a back corridor of a labyrinthine co-working space in Irvine.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In some cities, workers are walking off jobs — or threatening to — if more is not done to protect them and make working conditions more bearable.
    Caolán Magee, CNN, 21 July 2023

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