Sentence examples for worked to make a from inspiring English sources

Together, the Reeses worked to make a good living and to build a good life.

With that in mind, they called on their tailor in Singapore, where Mr. Li had once worked, to make a pair of dinner jackets out of silver brocade embroidered with dragons and other Chinese decorations, with satin silver lapels and buttons.

What about the years I worked to make a business here?" William W. Koeppel, another of Mr. Rikon's clients, who has run Megamat Laundromat on South Main Street for two years, said that his property has been appraised at $2 million and when he told Mr. Perelman that he had hired Mr. Rikon, their relationship turned ugly.

Three weeks out from a US midterm election, Republicans and Democrats have both worked to make a political catastrophe for their opponents out of the western media's hysteria in response to Ebola – which health experts believe could reach 10,000 new cases a week by December... in West Africa.

If Miami Vice worked to make a troubled city sparkle, today Miami dazzles on its own.

Over the past year, Bosnak has worked to make a simple app to use on the go and a website with features like the virtual garage and connections to Facebook and Twitter.

But when a white Daytona resident threatened Bethune's students with a rifle, Bethune worked to make an ally of him.

— Scott works to make a case for his embattled craft.

Everybody's here working, to make a profit.

They don't want to work to make a million, they want to make a billion".

We do sex work for the same reasons anyone works – to make a living.