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Example sentences for "job"

Lexicographically close words:
jist; jitney; jitneys; jitsu; jobbed; jobber; jobbers; jobbery; jobbing
  1. I'll tell you," he smiled, "forget all about that job and just stay around here and make us all young.

  2. Hurton on the job at once, and have him fight it.

  3. If this job isn't finished in fifteen minutes, I'll whip you.

  4. Always it was like this--just when he was most blissfully happy, he was jerked back to some mean, dirty job by the stern, driving demands of his tireless father.

  5. But he got very tired of his job and wanted to go to the ball game.

  6. Won't you give us a little job all our own, our very own, for we long to be doing something?

  7. Jill, will you please explain why they have to waste as big a man as Kinnison on such a piffling job as president?

  8. I feel like a heel and a louse, with so much job ahead, but you've simply got to tell me something.

  9. We discussed once before, you remember, what a job it was to get into any kind of communication with the Palainians on Pluto.

  10. For Kinnison pere had erred slightly in saying that the rest of the enterprise was to be an ordinary job of shadowing.

  11. How about your identical-twin cousins, Ray and George Olmstead, who have been doing such a terrific job of counter-spying?

  12. But you don't have to go even that far from home to locate a job of unscrewing the inscrutable.

  13. What is this job you're so sure you are going to do?

  14. Actually, he was doing a quick flit to Petrine, to get personally acquainted with the new Lensmen and to see what kind of a job they were doing.

  15. Or was Olmstead's job of more importance than he, Samms, had supposed?

  16. You are doing a particularly nice job on thionite.

  17. Somebody must have done a terrific job of selling, to make you believe that .

  18. You fellows have done a job so far and you'll keep on doing one.

  19. I want to know what job you're on and why you picked on us.

  20. But she's done a job so far that nobody else could do.

  21. It is my job to sift this matter to the bottom.

  22. They talk about giving me a home job and I don't think I could stick it.

  23. I'm a perfect ass at any one's job but my own.

  24. That's the Saucy Jane," Job Rowsell indicated, stretching out a forefinger.

  25. But he's come into money some way or other, Job Rowsell has.

  26. I'm for a few plain words with Job Rowsell, though he's my own sister's husband.

  27. I am not sure, Job Rowsell," the latter declared, "that I like your money nor the way you earn it.

  28. Allowing some foundation to the complaint, it is to no purpose that these people allege that their government is a job in its administration.

  29. I confess I should despair of your succeeding with any of them, if they cannot be satisfied that every job which they can look for on account of carrying this measure would be just as sure to them for their ordinary support of government.

  30. Though Job were a drama and Jonah an apologue, both might be inspired.

  31. Other books of Scripture, however, assure us that Job was an actual historical character (Ez.

  32. Though Job never had had a historical existence, the book would still be of the utmost value, and would convey to us a vast amount of true teaching with regard to the dealings of God and the problem of evil.

  33. Shells might burst with an appalling roar, and smaller missiles whirr through the air; but so long as none of them were struck he meant to keep everlastingly at his job of taking the car through the hurricane of iron.

  34. He had made an especially decent job of the operation, according to his way of looking at it, and the patient thanked him in voluble French, which, of course, Thad could only partly understand.

  35. Allan; “just twenty minutes, and a hard job in the bargain, because we’re not familiar with the French style of tires and inner tubes.

  36. If there isn’t any ford we’ll have to duck and run along the water’s edge to look for some sort of a boat, because swimming would be a tough job for Bumpus, anyhow.

  37. First street, and the following day I got a job with the S.

  38. At 10 o'clock the men came in for dinner, when we informed the foreman that we had thrown up our job and that he could settle with us.

  39. I was taken on as porter in the bar-room and hotel, but upon learning to mix drinks, I was engaged as bartender, which job I held until Mr. Ullman sold out a few weeks later to a firm in Los Angeles.

  40. You're likely to get a job making "little rocks out of big ones.

  41. Get a Job in a Law Office--Dirty, Ragged Clothes Put Off--Smallpox Starts Me Off Again.

  42. Secretary Sidney Smith was in charge of the work, and after hearing my story, kindly furnished me a place to sleep and eat, and gave me a job helping to repair the fair grounds.

  43. I told him I would go on to Bisbee and try that town for a job first.

  44. We got a job at Madera's planing mill in Fresno and found a lodging house at No.

  45. We gave up our job and walked back to the shanties.

  46. I now took a job at Doc's Kitchen washing dishes at two dollars and seventy-five cents per day.

  47. I gave up my job trucking freight and took the street car for San Pedro.

  48. Had I gone to Charlotte I would have been taken completely out of my way, at the very outset, causing all kinds of trouble, and this served a good deal to show me the exact size of the job I had undertaken.

  49. The next day I got a job unloading bananas off the boats at the I.

  50. Would ye be as good to go in for a job that'll put a pile o' money in your pocket?

  51. Besides," continues the older of the ex-convicts, "this job seems to me simple enuf.

  52. An' you ask if I'm good for a job like that?

  53. I'll do the hull job if you'll give me half the profits for one year.

  54. Frontispiece) She made a long job of her bunch of holly.

  55. Illustration: She made a long job of her bunch of holly.

  56. She made a long job of her bunch of holly.

  57. Anyway--Cargo-master on a mail run is more or less a thumb-twiddling job at the best.

  58. It was a job he had to do--one he had volunteered for--and there was no backing out.

  59. But it's going to be a job and a half to get those beaten out and reassembled.

  60. They had done a good job at silencing the E-Stat, for they had been almost six hours in space before the news of their raid was beamed to the nearest Patrol post.

  61. Dane went over the flitter with his small counter and was relieved to find that they had done a good job of shielding under Ali's supervision.

  62. A port city was a frightening thing to an old sailor--but let's begin our little job at the beginning.

  63. In other words," explained Cocteau, "you applied for a job on a private space freighter.

  64. Remember that Brinks job up in New England a long time ago?

  65. They shouldn't take a white man's job and they shouldn't be allowed to marry white people.

  66. But, truly, if the job was offered, would you take it?

  67. Like I said, it'll make the Brinks job look like peanuts.

  68. And a good job to get it out of this house," said Dunn.

  69. Pennington Wise came to the conclusion that he had now on hand the hardest job of his life.

  70. I been off on a six months' cruise since I saw you, and I'd like a job on shore first rate.

  71. I hope you've come to put up some job on Corey.

  72. The neighbouring restaurants began to send forth the smell of breakfast, and he dragged up and down till he could bear it no longer, and then went into one of them, meaning to ask for some job by which he could pay for a meal.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "job" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.