odd job

Example Sentences

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The Corbett Hotel's odd-job boy Alan Finlay, then 13, greeted the superstars as they arrived.

From BBC • May 26, 2025

Panting heavily after digging the grave, shaking his head in dismay, local locksmith and odd-job man Urii Churachenko bent down and placed two cigarettes in the earth as a token for his friend.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

For some reason Midorikawa seemed to have taken a deep interest in this young odd-job worker.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2014

This cobbled together odd-job of part-timers were sure of a rapturous reception from the temporary stands but volleyball too faces a fraught Olympic future.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2012

"Pretty complete smash, sir!"-122- said the odd-job man, and then perceiving heads over the hedge by the churchyard, turned back to his duty of sentinel.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)