workhorse

Example Sentences

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Wales hit back shortly after, keeping it among the hard-carrying forwards before shipping the ball out for workhorse Keight to power over.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Vogt’s Juliette groans like a workhorse that knows it’s destined for the glue factory.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Andres Sheppard, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, has called Neutron the only viable alternative to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the industry’s workhorse.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Known as a workhorse, she initially won broad praise for her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark during her first term from 2019 to 2022.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

As a child on farms in northern Minnesota, I had worked with workhorse teams—mowing and raking hay, cleaning barns with crude sleds and manure forks—and in the summer we would sometimes ride these workhorses.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen