How to use "worked" in a sentence

1.00 pm I've spent four hours trying to lift the boulder, but nothing has worked.

None of my plans have worked

None of my plans of escape have worked

None of the answers she gave worked but she kept trying

Ned worked quickly to set if free

He worked on the ships

Every day for the next few weeks, I went with Mr Chi (that was his name) and watched him while he worked

We worked hard, all that summer, and that autumn and winter and the next spring

Polly Nichols's killer worked quickly and silently, and disappeared like a ghost

Annie worked when possible, selling flowers or making clothes

Unfortunately he had not worked for some months so the couple could not pay the rent, and Mary had returned to prostitution

It describes him as a solitary man who worked alone, without the help of an accomplice

He certainly lived or worked in the Whitechapel area because he knew it very well

He worked very hard and nearly had a nervous breakdown.

He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon

He would lose everything that he had worked so hard to achieve

The tall, grey-haired man was doing useful work on the larger barricade, and Eponine (whom everyone thought was a boy) worked hard too

He worked in the lumber yard, and he tried to do things right

As she worked, she wondered why Cham didn't want her to talk to Wena

Maxim had told me how hard Frank Crawley worked for Manderley

She wasn't a dancer anymore; now she worked behind the curtain, in the production end of the show, but she still felt physically and psychologically best when she weighed no more than she had weighed when she'd been a performer.

For fifteen years, ever since she turned eighteen, two years before she married Michael, Tina Evans had lived and worked in Las Vegas

You worked your butt off

She usually worked during the day, not at night

While Elliot drove, he told Tina what had happened at his house: the two thugs, their interest in the possibility of Danny's grave being reopened, their admission that they worked for some government agency, the hypodermic syringes...

"I don't have anything worked out yet

So if you look at it that way, it worked out as well as it possibly could."

Because it was important for the men who worked in the large room to have an unobstructed view of the smaller inner chamber at all times, four angled ceiling vents in both rooms bathed the glass in a continuous flow of warm, dry air to prevent condensation and clouding

At least half of the people who worked for it did not even realize it existed; some thought they were employed by the FBI; others were sure they worked for the CIA; and still others believed that they were in the hire of various branches of the Treasury Department, including the Secret Service

"It worked

By God, it worked!"

So I worked up this act built around hypnotism

"I don't see any reason to get too worked up about it

While Tina worked on Danny, Elliot questioned Carl Dombey

Elliot worked a wadded handkerchief into Dombey's mouth.

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

Imagine if surgery worked this way

always worked like that.'

It was originally a steam hammer, but everything is worked electrically now

And all night the sound of hammering could be heard as the Martians worked on the machines they were making ready.

The warship could stilt turn and its engines worked

In the back of the head, or body - I do not really know what to call it - there was a flat surface like the skin of a drum, which we now know worked as an ear

These worked like hands.

It whistled as it worked, and no Martian seemed to be controlling it.

That worked for some time.

As we worked I thought about the job, and soon some doubts began to come into my mind

Besides this, we still know very little about the Black Smoke, and the way that the Heat-Ray worked remains a puzzle.

That old remedy worked better than a box of modern pills.

We worked hard for half an hour, but we peeled only four potatoes

I agreed with Harris, George never worked.

Harris worked very little on the boat.

Before I married him, I had worked for Major Donthorne of Varneck Hall, and I had seen how rich ladies lived

I asked him some questions about the time when Anne Catherick's mother had worked at his house

She taught at a school and also worked as a private teacher - she taught children in someone's house

Rosa Parks worked at a shop in the city of Montgomery, Alabama

Sometimes, she worked in the mountains where her family lived

After leaving school, Rigoberta worked against human rights crimes by Guatemalan soldiers from 1960 to 1996, during a war in the country

Feminists have also worked hard to stop sexual assault and other crimes against women at work and at home.

It showed that some American women were not happy if they only worked at home

In the past, almost all women worked at home

They also worked long hours and got very low pay - and it was very hard work.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the number of women who worked outside the home went up again.

This was a change from women in the past, who only worked a little because they got married and had children

She worked for Google before becoming the first woman COO at Facebook.

Carrie Gracie worked in China for the BBC

She has worked for the BBC for thirty years

"Marie Curie worked on the research too, didn't she?" he asked

She worked for the International Red Cross and taught doctors how to use X-rays.

For example, Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) was an Austrian - Swedish scientist who worked on radioactivity and physics

Hillary is a lawyer, and in her career, she has worked hard for the rights of women and of families

But, in 1960, a space programme was started by an American man called William Randolph Lovelace, who worked at NASA

Her parents worked on a farm, and her father was killed during World War Two

Valentina left school when she was sixteen and worked at a factory, but she continued her education in the evenings

Her father worked for the government, but he was also an athlete