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
  • Does the 4th grade national park pass work at Grand Canyon?
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Justin Brown’s father worked at the Lordstown plant for nearly nearly 50 years; Brown, for 10 years.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Eliza and Jennifer worked at the store, and Jennifer's sister Sarah was visiting with her friend Amy.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • While working at the nursing home, Shetworth-Ware became concerned about the way the staff was treating the patients.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Previously, in high school, Joshua worked at a car wash for money.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • His parents worked at a ski lodge where his father, Johann, was a chef and his mother, Siglinde, was a waitress.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Lin has lived in Harford County for about five years with his wife, who also works at Huo Guo as a server, and their two kids.
    Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Harris, who is a co-author on the findings, now works at CareEvolution, which helped with the software for the study.
    Mario Aguilar, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Haynes has worked at the organization for over 17 years.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • People who work at pain clinics report a large number of patients with back and spine pain.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Among the victims was a 4-month-old baby who died from head trauma and a woman who worked at a bank, officials said.
    MartÍn Adames AlcÁntara and DÁnica Coto, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Lin began working at Netflix in April and now holds one of the most influential jobs in the movie business.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Card worked at a recycling plant, according to two sources.
    NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • When the results came in, Low was in Sacramento working at his job in the state legislature.
    Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2024
  • After bouncing around for six months, Morris got part-time work at one firm but soon decided to strike out on his own.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • One piece of that coverage will be anchor Jorge Ramos, who has worked at Univision since 1987.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023

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