set task
Example Sentences
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Use a timer to set task deadline alarms.
From Inc ● Mar. 8, 2013
After several seasons spent in doing the same process thousands of times, her desire for new work becomes deadened, and she is afraid to attempt anything different from her one set task.
From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck
He hated the set task of fifty lines, and hated the system that imposed a fine of twenty lines for a failure to fulfil the first.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Hubbard, Elbert
He to be confined to the house every morning like a schoolboy, with a set task to do.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
At one stage it may mean the satisfaction of accomplishing a set task, whether selected by himself or imposed by some one else.
From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Gruenberg, Sidonie Matzner
