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
  • Rather, the heat from the screen and the rest of the components passively do the job.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Take note, no one is asking you to do the job of a recruiter.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • These are very basic and do the job for smaller chests.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
  • And she’s got to do the job quickly before she gets crowned the ruler of Lumbria.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This piece of cookware can do the job of so many different pots and pans.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Lean requires that workers do the job the same way every time.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • These Belkin headphones do the job, with 30 hours of battery life and a sturdy build.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • But the first few devices produced didn’t do the job well enough, either.
    Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • In a pinch, the freezer can do the job too, but set a timer for no longer than 10 minutes to avoid over-chilling.
    Anna Lee Iijima, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2024
  • What his grandpa needed was a device that would do the job.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even a win by LA in penalty kicks would do the job, as the Quakes’ head-to-head result against Chivas would send them through.
    Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • When hanging the lights in hard-to-reach places, use a sturdy ladder and never do the job alone.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Still, one of these apps will probably do the job for most people.
    PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Smart robots will tend to the old and infirm when there are not enough youngsters around to do the job, and the rest of us can lead lives of leisure.
    New Atlas, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • And that’s good enough to do the job of active noise cancellation.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Among Democrats, only about three-fifths thought Biden had the mental wherewithal to do the job.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2 July 2024
  • In most healthy adults, these tricks typically do the job.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Garcia was ready to do the job and even offered to provide a photo of the dead body, court papers said.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Their failure to do this has opened the door to Vivino and influencers who are happy to do the job for them.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • But for the Biden protectors/enablers, his having the job was more important than his ability to do the do the job.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • According to our experts, warm water is best to do the job at killing bacteria without compromising the softness of the fibers.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025

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