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Example sentences for: legwork
How can you use “legwork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Friday, Feb. 5) is a slightly tonier version of Cops -- sans the screaming drunks--in which detectives use dogged legwork to find the killer in a drive-by homicide, and then some more detectives go undercover to entrap male prostitutes.
The traditional investigative story, at least in the movies, works this way: The intrepid reporter, through gumption and legwork, exposes the evildoer; then the government takes over to flesh out the case and administer punishment.
The conservatives strafe the deal, because the U.N. secretary-general did the legwork.
Reviewers hail this biography as "a work of deep research and intense concentration, full of archive-sweat, legwork and looking" (Julian Barnes, the New York Times Book Review ), not to mention a great read.