How to Use legwork in a Sentence

legwork

noun
  • I wrote the article myself, but my assistant gathered the information and did most of the other legwork.
  • In the past, a background check could take weeks and a lot of legwork.
    — cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Hand crews then do the legwork of chopping through brush or small trees near homes.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
  • But our team of pro shopping writers has done the legwork for you.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023
  • All the legwork for that was already staged last summer.
    — Leigh Scheps, Parents, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Do the legwork, find lender options, and make a list of all features and rates.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • But if that’s your retirement dream, don’t let the legwork stop you!
    — Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2020
  • It is left to the caddies and the players to do their own legwork and fill in the blanks.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Asking for a referral might help take some of the legwork out of it.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Do the legwork, research your options and go the distance to reach your goal.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The splendor of high-altitude lakes awaits those who put in the legwork.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
  • The victory was not achieved without a great deal of legwork.
    — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Your rock-solid sales team is doing the legwork to onboard clients.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 20 June 2021
  • The connect-the-dots legwork that allows a warped order to emerge from the chaos?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • Apps that track the availability of hard-to-find goods can help do the legwork for you.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Steel and Schmidt had to put in six months of legwork in order to find those stories.
    — Roy Beeson, Marie Claire, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Sometimes that means doing more legwork.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes that means doing more legwork.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes that means doing more legwork.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes that means doing more legwork.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes that means doing more legwork.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Now, though, airlines are doing the planning and legwork to get some of their birds back in the air.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • In terms of legwork, the team’s job is fairly straightforward.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Offering to do some of the legwork to track a clinician down can go a long way.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But doing all the legwork for this sort of packaging takes much time and effort.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
  • If that also helps the financial firms doing the legwork, that will be all to the good.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • That might require bringing in the producers who do a lot of the legwork.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The political and legal legwork turned out to be the easy part.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
  • The legwork has been done for you — look no further for the finest jewelry gifts in chic gold tone for the best moms.
    — Angela Lei, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • But this study eliminates the need for a critic of mine to go put in the legwork of a keyword search.
    — Lou Perez, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020

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