How to Use workhouse in a Sentence
workhouse
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Jordan Niles was a workhouse on the drive with 10 carries in the drive for 62 yards.
— Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2019 -
Outside of the workhouse, news of her fast was spreading.
— Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018 -
Dom is a workhouse, a great athlete and a great lacrosse player.
— Sean Begin, courant.com, 10 June 2017 -
Looking to buy your first Dutch oven or upgrade this kitchen workhouse?
— Becca Miller, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022 -
The wooden workhouse structure that the first suffragists were held in no longer stands.
— Alli Hartley-Kong, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020 -
Not long after the workhouse was built in 1868, the public burials began.
— John Hirschauer, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020 -
He was convicted and sentenced to four months of service in a workhouse.
— Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019 -
He was sentenced to 10 months in the workhouse, and resigned from the Children’s Theatre Company.
— Michelle Griffith, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019 -
As the workhouse of the world, China has borne the brunt of environmental costs that accompanied the rise of consumerism in the West and, now, at home.
— Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2019 -
Despite being an indomitable workhouse in the booth, the embattled Alamo Records artist has struggled to stave off his demons.
— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Mayor Tishaura Jones, a liberal Democrat elected in April 2021, ran in part on a pledge to close the workhouse.
— Jim Salter, ajc, 14 Sep. 2022 -
In December 1964, Bruce was sentenced to four months in a workhouse, but was released on bail through the appeals process, per his website.
— Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 13 Apr. 2023 -
In October, a judge stayed a 364-day sentence to the Hennepin County workhouse for two years and put him on probation.
— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2024 -
Thomas Martin died of fever in 1847, the blackest year of the great Potato Famine, after visiting former tenants in the workhouse.
— Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 -
On August 17, six women were sentenced to month-long confinements at the workhouse.
— National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020 -
Would a frontrunner have faded with fatigue, while a workhouse like Lynn got stronger as the season progressed?
— Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020 -
People are turning violent because of the Rip, and Vic, the man from the workhouse, confronts Billy randomly in the street and attacks him.
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2021 -
Housed in a former workhouse in Shoreditch, in a time where most of us who are lucky enough to have their own homes, have thought about them and their place in our lives, its reopening couldn’t be more timely.
— Sarah Turner, Forbes, 28 May 2021 -
Despite its lofty ideals, the Industrial School proved to be little more than a harsh workhouse, whose real purpose was to keep troubled youths out of sight.
— Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018 -
On closer investigation, Snow learned the workhouse had its own pump.
— Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020 -
The workhouse, rather than being a safety net, was an exemplary punishment.
— Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Over the decades, Hart Island housed a Civil War prison, an asylum, a tuberculosis hospital, a workhouse, a jail and a missile base.
— CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020 -
Oliver’s transit from the workhouse to an undertaker’s establishment to Fagin’s hide-out, spread across eight chapters in the Dickens, takes what seems like a blink of an eye here.
— Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 May 2023 -
One insisted really on a type of solitary confinement for people who had been convicted of crimes and the other looked more like a workhouse.
— Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020 -
For the suffragists, the humiliation of the workhouse was not only unjust arrest.
— Alli Hartley-Kong, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020 -
Offenders sentenced to a year or less typically serve their sentences at the workhouse, and the county has slashed admissions to its workhouse programs by nearly half over the decade.
— Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020 -
The commissioner’s departure will end a career with the county that began in 1981 walking the cellblocks of the workhouse as a corrections officer.
— Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020 -
This stainless steel workhouse includes a steam wand for frothing milk, an automatic flow stop and memory function for cup volume.
— Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 1 Sep. 2017 -
These human stories unfold against a backdrop of enormous human suffering in the prisons, workhouses, brothels and streets.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023 -
An émigré who had spent much of his childhood in poverty, including time in a London workhouse, and who had at best a fourth-grade education, Chaplin became, almost overnight, one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood.
— Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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