errand
Example Sentences
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Polly Logan, the award-winning distiller at nearby Tormore Distillery, has been known to drop it off herself in between other errands.
It was going to take Mrs. Maroney a few minutes to tend to the errand, and she excused herself with profound apologies.
From Literature
Predicting when a bubble is finally about to burst could be a fool’s errand.
From Barron's
Meanwhile, assistance with “hands-off” tasks such as cooking, cleaning and running errands had an annual median cost of $75,504, the survey found.
From MarketWatch
Erikson referred to most of the investigations he undertook not as “studies” but “research errands,” to indicate that he hadn’t embedded in those communities for nearly as long as he had in Buffalo Creek.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
