How to Use workhouse in a Sentence

workhouse

noun

• 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
• 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
• During the Industrial Revolution, England built workhouses where the destitute broke stones and untangled rope in return for food and a bed.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• The commission that repealed the system replaced it with Dickensian workhouses—a corrective, at the opposite extreme, for a program that everyone agreed had failed.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2014

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024