(1) he was a workhorse of an actor, often appearing in as many as forty plays in a year(2) Despite all this, the truck, a workhorse used by farmers and builders throughout the world, still managed to drive into the Top Gear studio after only relatively minor repairs.(3) And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.(4) Gradually he made a name for himself as (so he put it) a workhorse and not a show horse; his fellow senators came to admire him.(5) Lloyd was a workhorse out of the Blue Jays' bullpen in 1999, and that may have been one of the factors that led to his shoulder surgery in 2000.(6) He's a workhorse on a team that plays hard defensively, but provides little cushion offensively.(7) If jazzy products and packages are the show horses, a dairy's filling process can be considered the workhorse of an operation.(8) Chunky, practical and uninspiring, it used to be nothing more than a dependable workhorse .(9) the aircraft was the standard workhorse of Soviet medium-haul routes(10) He's also near the top of the offensive rebounding charts and is among the NBA's biggest workhorses in terms of minutes played.(11) Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.(12) They are workhorses and the one I chose is both affordable and powerful.(13) Coming from Land Rover, which had made its name in producing rugged off-road workhorses used by farmers, the military and police the world over, the new model aimed to continue the tradition.(14) Motors and drives - the workhorses of many dairy plants - can play an important role in lowering kilowatt hours.(15) As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses , the Black Forest horse became endangered.(16) ‘They've been the workhorses of the industry and are absolutely our best friends,’ the microbiologist says.
