How to Use work at in a Sentence

work at

phrasal verb
  • The store will hire between 6-10 people to work at the store.
    The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
  • More than a dozen of the apprentices will learn to work at Tiffany & Co.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Police said that the children's mother was at work at the time of the fire and not at home.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Lessons from childhood Tan learned the value of hard work at a young age.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, Zweibel was working at a deli in Queens and selling jokes to Catskills comics for $7 a pop.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Does the 4th grade national park pass work at Grand Canyon?
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • How will the sensory zone work at the Wauwatosa parade?
    Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Returns to work at the SàiGòn Mới, open every day of the week, nearly every day of the year.
    Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The spokesperson could not say how many employees work at the stores.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 21 June 2024
  • Jobs, who had dropped out of Reed, worked at the orchard, helping to produce cider.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The sky was clear and the lake was still by the time the 24-year-old lifeguard captain arrived for work at North Avenue Beach.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
  • Vance worked at Revolution for about a year, and left in 2019.
    Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The way the industry is working at the moment is no one seems to be taking risks.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Her father moved from Alabama to Detroit in the 1960s to work at Chrysler.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • His father, Robert Mnuchin, was a partner at Goldman Sachs who worked at the bank for over three decades.
    Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • For the past 21 years, Akel has worked at the zoo caring for many of the animals depicted on this year’s float.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • One of the major economic tenets of his plan isn’t working at all right now.
    Matt Viser and Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Trump has claimed Harris never worked at the fast food giant.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Her husband worked at their startup at the time, and her parents lived in Korea.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Actors Keri Russell Spears’ parents put her to work at a young age.
    TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The award-winning recipe was created by staffer Kiyo Miller, who worked at the resort for more than 40 years.
    Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The self-landing technology works at heights of up to 10 feet.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 5 June 2024
  • In an ideal Misfit world, your future work isn’t work at all.
    Hisham Ahmad, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Gray was born and raised in Merced and grew up working at his family’s dairy supply and feed store.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
  • All the unit laptops, except one from France, refused to work at the location.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • While still working at the Mercury News, the Johnsons worked nights and weekends at the bookstore in the beginning.
    Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Mom could help Bubby, and Sissy could work at Cartridge World.
    Nicole Dieker, Vox, 26 July 2024
  • Upon arriving in the city of lights, Ali begins working at a small burlesque spot run by Terry (Cher).
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • These features enlist larger models and require more advanced chips to work at the same time to reduce latency, or lag.
    Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024

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