How to Use job in a Sentence

job

noun
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  • He took a job as a waiter.
  • They offered him the job but he turned it down.
  • It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
  • The blood's job is to carry oxygen to the different parts of the body.
  • Construction of the bridge turned out to be a bigger job than they had expected.
  • The new factory will create thousands of jobs.
  • She's trying to get a job in New York.
  • She has a high-paying job on Wall Street.
  • The job fell to the school district’s chief of staff, Jose Bueno.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But is the job now to defend our lifestyles against the climate?
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Drollinger's new gig is being added to a long list of other jobs.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • Or use the time to write a book and give everyone a little book job?
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There are many people in this world with a difficult job, and this isn’t one of them.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • And Irani says the bridge's collapse will likely create some jobs.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Speaker of the House may be the worst job in America, and yet the race to fill it is growing more crowded.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • This app will tell you which job to work and when — and guarantees your earnings each hour.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Its job is to look at short-term and long-term financial fixes.
    — The Enquirer, 26 July 2023
  • That's because bleach passes down the drain too quickly to do a thorough job.
    — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
  • The case went to mediation, and her boss never lost his job.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Your best clue about finding waders that get their primary job done is to buy a top brand.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The same poll found that 63% disapproved of the job the city government is doing.
    — Jon Michael Raasch, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The coolest one on the plane is the in-flight meteorologist because his job is to just scrub that radar.
    — Victoria Kennedy, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Shane Stephenson got a crash course in firefighting during his first week on the job.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 19 June 2023
  • In November, the union named Stutzman to its top staff job as Young, who had been with the union since 2004, departed.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The injury slowed his early progress, opening the door for Moss to seize the backup quarterback job outright in the spring.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Lozano and Mitchell had been on the job for roughly 17 years and seven years, respectively.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • So Urbani’s job was to procure those from a hatchery or catch them and then take care of them so they could be released.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
  • The same could be set up, Dianne Feinstein, someone else could do that job.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023

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