workhorse

Through all of this, however, Howe was, as he always is, the workhorse of the Red Wings.

As a lawmaker, she has always been more of a show pony than a workhorse.

The 737 is a world-wide daily workhorse on domestic routes, sometimes making as many as seven flights a day.

The Los Angeles city government views Farmers Field as a gifted workhorse.

Sedgwick often turns to the word “workhorse” to describe herself.

"Democracy an excellent workhorse, but a poor charger; a good hack, but an untrustworthy racer," iv.

He figured that he might work up a trade of two unbroken colts for a gentle workhorse.

On signal from the tower, the big workhorse thundered down the runway and soared off into the blue.

The Holter, that workhorse of the water, plodded stolidly on its appointed way.