1. The steam engine was the workhorse of the Industrial Revolution.

2. The Hercules aircraft has been the workhorse of the airforce for over 25 years.

3. Nixon, the loner, was a workhorse with determination.

4. Cunningham is the team's defensive workhorse.

5. She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse.

6. But the real workhorse of the Galapagos operation was the tiny sub called the Alvin.

7. The aircraft was the standard workhorse of Soviet medium-haul routes, a Tupolev 154 jet, six seats abreast.

8. The Boeing 707 used to be the workhorse of air travel.

9. No matter to Luke, the Workhorse.http://

10. The D8 is a versatile eight-speed workhorse with just enough design-y elements (pretty colors, chain guard, and a classic diamond frame shape) to make it covetable.

11. Van de Graaff generators are the current workhorse of nuclear stucture research.

12. Van de Graaff generators are the current workhorse of nuclear structure research.

13. The IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world.

14. The workhorse of that project was the ABI 3700 a DNA sequencer from Applied Biosystems.

15. Jim is a workhorse.

16. He is a dented little workhorse who, having outlasted his planned obsolescence, spends his days in the Sisyphean , mechanical labor of gathering and compacting garbage.

17. "Melittin is a workhorse, " said Dr. Wickline, "It's very stable on the nanoparticles, and it's easily and cheaply produced.

18. Nike's mechanical workhorse that fine - tunes the design of clubheads.

19. My husband never even looked at me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.

20. Nevertheless, it's an excellent shoe for runners looking for a workhorse shoe combining stability cushioning and durability.

21. He was also a great admirer of the weapon: The M60 was a real workhorse.

22. The microcomputer which is usually recognized as the part with the keyboard on top is the workhorse of the system.

23. Her strengths are her experienced pilots and her well-tested technology which make her a reliable workhorse.

24. Celera announced this week that it had finished sequencing the genome of that laboratory workhorse, the mouse.

25. Molecular virologist Paul Ahlquist and co-workers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, investigated virus replication in a research workhorse known as brome mosaic virus (BMV).

26. With the FCC gasoline accounts for 80% of the motor gasoline pool, fluid catalytic cracking unit is the workhorse unit producing motor gasoline in China.

27. The European honeybee, first imported to the Colonies some 400 years ago, has been the domesticated pollinator workhorse in the U.S. since people began trucking them up and down highways in the 1950s.