Examples of 'were put to work' in a sentence

Meaning of "were put to work"

were put to work - Means to start doing a task or job, often after being idle or inactive

How to use "were put to work" in a sentence

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were put to work
African slaves were put to work on these farms.
Children as young as three were put to work.
They were put to work on the farms.
Those that booted up were put to work.
Inmates were put to work making jute bags.
They were just work camps where intractable communists were put to work.
On arrival he and others were put to work in a coal mine.
These were put to work in reconstruction or demining.
The remaining prisoners were put to work on a road gang.
Those deemed able to work were temporarily spared and were put to work.
Slaves were put to work in difficult conditions.
Two days after arriving they were put to work in a large factory.
Their prisoner numbers were tattooed onto their forearms and they were put to work.
The boys were put to work taking care of their horse herds.
Staff with little experience of apprenticeshipissues were put to work on the scheme.

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Roy and Wait were put to work delivering the newspapers.
During the existence of the camp many prisoners were put to work in kommandos.
Most were put to work in the sugar fields of the Caribbean and Brazil.
For some time he reviewer that it raises were put to work of the bus.
The slaves were put to work on the plantations of the Americas and the Caribbean.
The Spanish and Austrian prisoners of war were put to work on the earthworks.
These prisoners were put to work clearing land around Mount Disappointment and constructing roads.
Detectives Peter Merylo and Martin Zalewski were put to work on the case full time.
These implements were put to work even as thousands of men marched further into Virginia.
When we arrived on Friday night, we were put to work.
In the camp the inmates were put to work by large German companies.
We were put to work by the kids, and were happy to help.
Hollywood 's vast talent and money were put to work to fabricate enemies in the galaxies.
We were put to work at once, carrying water.
When they arrived in Haiti, the slaves were put to work.
The street children were put to work making sail twine and lines for Vasa.
By the time children were 6 or 7, they too were put to work.
Some men were put to work building the Colosseum in Rome.
Likewise, Team Austria volunteers were put to work in the relief effort.
They were put to work in factories, though.
The Einsatzgruppen remained active, however, and were put to work fighting partisans, particularly in Belarus.
They were put to work on farms, at rubbish recycling centres and poultry factories.
Civilians, including women and children, were put to work building trenchworks and protective fortifications.
The aircraft were put to work initially on the Rome-Venice-Munich-Berlin route.
Wolpaw and Faliszek were put to work on the dialogue for Portal.
Most of them were put to work in Ukraine, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Men, women and children were put to work in factories under poor conditions.
During that time they were put to work in slave-labour commandos and broken.
But not only practices were put to work in decision-making at the local level.
Later, the Indians were put to work on sugarcane plantations.

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