How to Use do by in a Sentence

do by

verb
  • Most farming is still done by men.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • It was all done by myself and my team.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • Some of their jobs were done by people last year.
    — Leslie Picker,ritika Shah, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
  • They were both done by people who shouldn't be here.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Road restoration should be done by the end of June.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • All of this work is being done by humans.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • It was all done by kind of osmosis.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • But the real work still has to be done by people.
    — Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • That won’t be done by a handful of people.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The project is expected to be done by the end of the year.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
  • All of the digging had to be done by shovels, by hand.
    — Sooji Nam, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Trellises are not used and all work is done by hand.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Removing heavy snow from plants needs to be done by hand.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Some will be done by the end of next week, others later this month.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026
  • Which parts are better done by AI?
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Neighbors hope it's done by the time the new school year begins.
    — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • All my chores had to be done by the time Momma got home from work.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So that could have been done by marketing, and the area rug was handy.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
  • This is done by coating both sides of the glass with a special type of film.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Coffey added that it should be done by Monday.
    — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • This was done by the military and given to me.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The front parking lot should be done by the start of the school year, the district said.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 June 2026
  • The entire harvest is done by hand rather than machine.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • There is still a ton of work to be done by the Canucks moving forward.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • Being jerked off—if done by the right person—leaves no regrets.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And that can only be done by resistance.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of that analysis can be done by AI.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
  • With no paved roads, crossing the sand dunes is best done by camel cart, tractor, or four-wheel drive.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2017
  • An order is final if there is nothing left to be done by the trial court.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • What once required full teams can now be done by a handful of people equipped with the right tools.
    — Nimesh Mehta, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

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