How to Use line of work in a Sentence

line of work

noun phrase
  • Colin Jost isn't bothered by his wife Scarlett Johansson's line of work.
    Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • The dedicated attorneys who often spend decades (and, in some cases, their entire careers) in our line of work are the backbone of our office.
    Daniel Eisinger, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2024
  • Reach out to authors in your line of work on LinkedIn to get some guidance.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • For many in this line of work, the videos are a form of marketing — and have rapidly become part of the job.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Navarro, in turn, punches the cop because this woman is not in the right line of work.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The deal adds another vessel to the growing line of work booked for Austal’s new steel line.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Over time, she’s developed a hard shell, which is useful in her line of work.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Ellen pursued this line of work for 15 years through a private practice in New York City.
    Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In this line of work, Astrid was eventually hired as the maître d’ at a local restaurant called The French Café.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
  • Polite society doesn’t tend to approve of their line of work.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But for his own line of work, Murray doled out some advice for when jokes go horribly wrong.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
  • That sets the wheels in motion for the effervescent chorus hook, where Prince admits he’s just not cut out for that line of work.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • And details in this line of work can mean the difference between a successful frame job or the electric chair.
    The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Keeping track of who controls song rights is an ongoing challenge in his line of work.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The tow service owner also said that because of his line of work, he is used to spotting all kinds of creatures on the water — just not bears.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Michael Borgen said his father wasn’t in his line of work to leave harsh critiques but to help restaurants improve their food, and in turn, stay in business.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • In his line of work, the major problems tend to stem from funds that aren’t disclosing this kind of information to their investors.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But she was excited by their hunger for services and has been met with appreciation for her line of work.
    Amelia Arvesen, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
  • His line of work brings him into contact with a variety of people, some of whom are as interesting as their pets.
    Jj Wahlberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023
  • Reaching the model’s full potential would also require paying people to move and farm somewhere else, or to find a new line of work.
    Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • So any signal that Musk won’t continue that line of work at Tesla could be unnerving for investors.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For many of you, this might mean considering going into a line of work that is more purposeful than the one you’re currently involved in.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
  • People in this line of work are used to going for unpredictable spans of time without working and plan accordingly.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • Appropriately for his line of work, Linnaeus’s name remains widely known, and he is hailed in his country of origin as his own kind of rex—the King of Flowers.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • One prop house, Morgue Prop Rentals, loans out embalming tables and body bags to crime dramas and is an offshoot of a private autopsy business — a strike-proof line of work.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • In his line of work in television, Mr. Morash correctly perceived that viewers would flock to TV experts much as his father’s colleagues had turned to him.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • People in your line of work are saying that what remains most important is to open land crossings from Rafah and hopefully elsewhere.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But, growing up, Drew did not appreciate her mother’s involvement in her line of work.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Listen to this article Those of us movie critics fortunate enough to be in this line of work are always trying to squeeze another two hours or so out of the week to catch one more new film.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2024
  • Dave Rudie, a lifelong urchin diver in California, thinks he and others in his line of work can do a perfectly good job of controlling the recent urchin surge.
    Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023

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