odd job
Example Sentences
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For Wang, the prestigious literary prize comes after a few difficult decades as an odd job worker.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
An intermittent maintenance worker for much of his life, Castro’s done just about every odd job there is: chopping down trees, cleaning out garages, washing cars, planting grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
Now, except for the occasional odd job, there is no work.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
Being a diplomat for the world’s most undiplomatic regime must be an odd job.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
Money would come in—and with it, food—on the rare occasion that Dad landed an odd job or Mom received a check from the oil company leasing the drilling rights on her land in Texas.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
