Sentence examples similar to reduced to work from inspiring English sources

His disabled father, a former chemical engineer, was reduced to working door-to-door selling shoes.

Past winters had found her reduced to working out in a gym.

The stage manager of the play-within-a-play is an actress reduced to working backstage.

"It's really sad to see someone basically be reduced to working as if they had never gotten a college degree," she said.

And she slips herself into the life of a frustrated artist (played by the director Mathieu Kassovitz), who has been reduced to working in a pornography shop.

When he was ten or eleven years old, he found the dead body of his father, Louis, a blacksmith who had been reduced to working as a junkman.

"But higher education is buffeted with various boards and commissions, so we were reduced to working around the edges to achieve our goals.

Too often, the goals are reduced to working out how much money is needed to meet a particular target and then berating governments for not spending enough.

"The Last Command" (1928): Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor Oscar as a czarist general reduced to working as a Hollywood extra.

I knew of many great doctors, lawyers, university professors and other great professionals who were reduced to working as cab drivers, kiosk operators, etc.

In the TBS comedy, co-starring "Chuck's" Ryan McPartlin, Engvall will play a former executive who is reduced to working a minimum wage job after his company fails.