workhorse

Example Sentences

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The Falcon 9 rocket became the company's workhorse, and has carried out hundreds of missions.

From Barron's • May 20, 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

Preqin’s Lai said early-stage investing will remain the workhorse of venture capital in the long term.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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