How To Use put to work In A Sentence
- They were put to work in remote areas to fell trees, mine the country's mineral wealth and open up the vast and empty land tracts of the far north and east.
- This indicates a very lean organization where your donation will be put to work, rather than recycled into fundraising efforts.
- Today, we are shocked when young children are put to work for pennies a day in India, or China, in conditions of indenture that approximate slavery.
- When the Nazis occupied his country, he was expelled from school and put to work as a construction labourer.
- A genuine rebel who could not deal with authority on any level, he had been put to work in Special Forces in Vietnam. FLOATING CITY
- The old machine was fixed up and put to work again.
- Activists say elephant calves are still being wrenched from their mothers to be put to work. Times, Sunday Times
- We have on our side of the line large areas that are barren that were formerly covered with trees, and, reforestation is one means, Mr. Chairman, that Canada and its government can take toward replenishing the water supply of the Great Lakes, and thousands and thousands of men could be put to work at that, here, on this side of the line, as they are doing on the other side of the line. The Disastrous Depletion of The Great Lakes
- He emerged to discover the city razed, and was put to work clearing bodies. Times, Sunday Times
- He was put to work digging a quarter-acre section of waist-high grass.
