Example Sentences

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Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023

These are so inadequate, when compared with the income of a well-employed barrister, that the state is deprived of the advantage of having the highest legal talent on the bench.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick

How many a well-employed hour he passed with that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez!

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules

The driver sat down on the running-board of the automobile and there ensued a well-employed silence.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

The even stretch of well-employed time in that Paradise begins to show irregular rents.

From The Fugitive by Tagore, Rabindranath