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
• These films, and Texas Chain Saw, laid the groundwork for the slasher boom to come.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
• For the third time, Shanahan laid the groundwork for his linemate to claim the spotlight.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
• The quarterback sets the tone and lays the groundwork for that bond, even if others have a strong voice.
  — Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 6 July 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
• And the groundwork for the SnyderVerse siege had been laid well before 2020.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
• The groundwork for several deals was laid at the market.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
• The Global Times, tweeted that the move was an affront to Beijing and even lays the groundwork for war in Asia.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 May 2022
• One of the big joys of Season 3 is the many payoffs from the storytelling groundwork laid by the writers in the first two years.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• Bills starter running back James Cook, meanwhile, took care of the groundwork.
  — Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Without the groundwork going in, the crops do not appear.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• In two minutes and 33 seconds, Lake torched her decades-long career and laid the groundwork for a new one.
  — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Over the past year Pence has not-so-subtly laid the groundwork for a presidential run of his own.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 24 May 2022
• Aptos is already laying the groundwork for that to take shape.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 July 2022
• 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
• He is widely considered to have helped lay the groundwork for Macron’s rise to power in 2017.
  — Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
• Kudla and his team aren’t new to London, and have been laying the groundwork for the new-concept flagship.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• To date, the Moonshot has set priorities and laid the groundwork for a bigger push in the next budget year.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• It’s been over two decades since Honda last released a new Prelude, but the company began laying the groundwork for its return with the release of a concept version last year.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025