hard-working
Example Sentences
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Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.
From Los Angeles Times
In between matches, hard-working staff are hosing down the courts to cool the sand.
From BBC
There are self-reflexive meta gags about “hard-working cartoon writers” and “reappropriating out-of-date catchphrases.”
From Los Angeles Times
He described his client as an "industrious and hard-working person who wants to make something of his life", and said he was "remorseful" for what happened.
From BBC
She has made it no secret that her drive to continue to compete at the elite level is not only for her own family but for hard-working mothers everywhere.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.