errand

He demonstrated that he had the makings of a future Marine after his mother sent him on a last minute errand to a nearby deli.

In the Bible angels are mostly errand boys, the word itself means "messenger."

At the start of the game he is been sent to the fantastic city of Columbia on an errand: to find a girl and have his debt cleaned.

It's a fool's errand when the general electorate is trending in favor of more government.

It is, increasingly, the received wisdom in the West that nation building is a fool's errand.

The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.

A simple errand and promenade,--and yet she felt herself to be steeped in the romance of an adventure!

One evening, rather more than a week after the marriage, Hedges had been on an errand to Calne, and was hastening home.

A few words explained his errand; but the brave Englishman would hardly hear it to the end.

Except for their sad errand, both Felipe and Aunt Ri would have experienced a keen delight in this ascent.