Sentence examples for were hard at work from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Indian mathematicians were hard at work.

Hard hats were hard at work, cleaning, grouting and painting.

There they were, hard at work, sampling, bootlegging, homaging.

Within a day of being installed, my bees — Italians — were hard at work.

He and three cotton-mouthed men wearing yarmulkes and wine stains were hard at work.

Counselors were hard at work trying to help them make sense of it all.

LAST month, two kindergarten classes at the Blue School were hard at work doing what many kindergartners do: drawing.

Dozens of others were hard at work, replacing shattered windows and covering holes in their roofs from the recent bombing.

In Broadmoor, a neighborhood flooded in Katrina, Hispanic laborers were hard at work rebuilding houses damaged in that storm.

But several muscular men were hard at work in the sprawling, well-equipped basement exercise room when I arrived.

PARIS — While some of us were at the beach this summer, media company lobbyists in Europe were hard at work.