13 examples of lifework in sentences

"And I hope," said Marty, "that I may find my lifework in some of the new home mission fields we have been learning about this week.

We've had several lifework meetings lately, and the needs of the world have been pretty strongly stated.

He showed me my lifework.

Besides, I don't really feel that hotel-keeping is my lifework.

For the accompanying notes of Allan Cunningham's earlier lifework I am indebted to the Biographical Notes concerning Allan Cunningham, compiled by Mr. J.H. Maiden, Director of the Sydney Botanical Gardens.

Her lifework was not ended.

Merely the narrow, steady, city man's lifework, rest, a little recreation, sleep.

It was no light thing for a man past thirty to throw aside a profession in which he had already made an enviable reputation and take up a new lifework.

Widespread vocational training will democratize the education of the country: (1) by recognizing different tastes and abilities, and by giving an equal opportunity to all to prepare for their lifework; (2) by extending education through part-time and evening instruction to those who are at work in the shop or on the farm."

To keep on friendly terms with a powerful next-door neighbour, or to build defensive works high enough to make hostility a safe game, is the lifework of its statesmen and its politicians.

We stood appalled before the mass of material, growing higher and higher with every mail, and the thought of all the reading involved made us feel as if our lifework lay before us.

Remembering her deep interest in the education of women, we can honor her in no more worthy manner than to carry on her special lifework.

Sometimes, like Terborch, by her anecdotical treatment, she can set a whole romantic story before you; again, in the manner of Gerard Dow, she gives you a penetrating glimpse into old burgher lifework that is quite out of touch with the dilettantism that largely pervades modern art.

13 examples of  lifework  in sentences