How to Use workweek in a Sentence

workweek

noun
  • The rain should end about same time the next workweek begins.
    Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • And the five-day workweek has been the standard in the U.S. since the Great Depression.
    Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2023
  • At times, that meant two jobs apiece and 60-80 workweeks.
    Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
  • Zoom in: Here's what to know as the workweek gets started.
    Erin Doherty, Axios, 16 July 2024
  • Phoenix will also be around 115 for most of the workweek.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The workweek will be slightly cooler with highs in the low to mid-90s.
    Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The four-day workweek has been a workplace dream for decades.
    Christine Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • There is more pain ahead, though, with lots of warmth on tap this workweek.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • See Ian Livingston’s forecast through the start of the workweek.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The four-day workweek wasn’t even on Fain’s agenda in those talks, though.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The workweek is about to get a lot longer for some employees in Greece.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 June 2024
  • However, the flip side is the stress of the busy season, with 60+ hour workweeks being the norm for the first four months of the year.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Many of those problems were cleared up by the beginning of the workweek.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 June 2019
  • What’s your favorite part of the workweek, and what’s the most difficult?
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The end of your 40-plus-hour workweek does not have to mean more time lounging with others.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • The total number, courtesy of secondary roads, has climbed each of the last three days of the workweek.
    Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Oct. 2024
  • For her, that’s a job with a four-day workweek that is fully remote.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Automaker Henry Ford was among the first to switch to a five-day workweek in 1926.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • The dip was driven by a decline in employment, the length of the workweek and new orders.
    Lydia Depillis, CNN, 17 June 2019
  • Broken down by day, that translates to a four-day workweek with just 7.37-hour days.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The new report suggests that a four-day workweek could be a tool for this purpose.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Wednesday was forecast to be the coldest day of the workweek for the Great Lakes, Northeast and Southeast.
    NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • This was a beautiful start to the workweek, all the Monday aspects aside!
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • The rest of the workweek is expected to be cooler than Tuesday.
    oregonlive.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • In the span of the workweek, high temperatures dove roughly 15 degrees in the area of the Airport Fire.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Slightly cooler conditions are in store for the end of the workweek.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 May 2024
  • There’s been a lot of talk of a move to a four-day workweek and a more generous time-off policy.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Could a three-day workweek be the answer to the U.K.’s energy torment?
    Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The move to the shorter workweek was prompted by alarming rates of turnover since the pandemic.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • Prince William squeezed a surprise visit with his favorite soccer team into his busy workweek.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024

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