How to Use groundwork in a Sentence

groundwork

noun

• The man who laid the groundwork for it all wasn’t around to see it.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• The latter remains to be seen, but the groundwork to avoid the former was laid a long time ago on the Hilltop.
  — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Pence allies have been laying the groundwork for him for months.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The groundwork for several deals was laid at the market.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
• The Lindsay Lohanaissance — or at least the groundwork laid for it — will be streamed.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• The project, researchers say, will lay the groundwork for future space travel.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• Now is the time to make the moves that can reduce your tax bill for 2022 and lay the groundwork for a financially smart new year.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
• The first chapter lays the groundwork for the film’s narrative framework.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• The groundwork has been laid, but there is still a lot of cleanup and cross-platform integration to do.
  — Amy Spurling, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• Every time we get contacted by a new client, I’m used to the stylists doing the groundwork of seeking out the brand.
  — Kyle Lamar Rice, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• Beijing has spent years laying the groundwork for the rules that take effect Tuesday.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• The groundwork for what happened to Marvel in 2023 had been laid down for quite a while, in both its boardrooms and its writing rooms.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• In a sign of things to come, Musk pulled out of that deal and started laying groundwork to buy the company outright.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
• Starting almost 50 years ago, Blades, who grew up in Panama, helped lay the groundwork.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• In the television era, the fairness doctrine laid that groundwork.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• Shoigu's claim sparked fears that Russia might be laying the groundwork to use a nuclear weapon and blame Ukraine for it.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2022
• There's even an argument that the show laid the groundwork for having a Black President of the United States.
  — Starr Rocque, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
• Lovullo seemed to be laying the groundwork for a potential quick hook.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• And primaries in Washington and Michigan laid the groundwork for a few of those contests.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
• No rate changes are expected, though officials look likely to lay the groundwork for a rate cut in the fall.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 25 July 2024
• The groundwork was laid before the pandemic, when Franklin overhauled how math was taught.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• For Och, the impressive audiences are a result of a more than a decade’s groundwork.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
• Rock Mackie has laid the groundwork for the medical physics cluster to have a better shot.
  — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
• Abrams spent the four years since her defeat laying the groundwork for another run.
  — Jeff Amy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2022
• Some writers want to go as far as strike right away, while others want to lay the groundwork for more gradual change.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2023
• Bell landed in Cincinnati after a quick courtship on a three-year deal that helped lay the groundwork for their Super Bowl run.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• His comments laid the groundwork for what could be a tense debate over arming campus staff this year.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
• This early lesson in resilience laid the groundwork for my future endeavors, both in the military and in business.
  — Alok Chanani, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Embracing honesty lays the groundwork for a rock-solid internal friendship that can weather any storm.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024