Sentence examples for needs serious work from inspiring English sources

The waterfront needs serious work.

It needs serious work, having not been restored since the blitz.

COACH 7 to COACH 8: He has pretty good skills, but he needs serious work in the weight room.

The roster needs serious work, irrespective of the coach, but perhaps even more so because of this coach.

Which sounds a bit like a jockey saying he needs to get a lot better at riding, or a footballer admitting that his kicking needs serious work.

Marcus Trescothick needs serious work if he is to avoid the same fate against the South Africans as here but Hussain has shown real determination, Crawley stickability and Robert Key a temperament to be encouraged.

Only real planes were going to be displayed, and some of them needed serious work.

The walls needed painting, the bathroom needed serious work and a cluttered bookcase still needed to be pruned.

Still, there seemed to be a consensus among most subway riders yesterday that the dilapidated stations needed serious work.

I fared no better at my next practice; my teammates said I swung too hard and needed serious work at angling my flat bat the proper way.

Pruning an organic olive grove sounded like a rewardingly peaceful two-week break, but as I drag my purple ladder over to the next gnarly, overgrown tree, the task ahead seems impossible – the grounds of Villa Pianciani have more than 3,000 trees, and they all need serious work.