menial

Example Sentences

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While robots may be able to take over menial tasks, humans will be needed to supervise and repair complex fleets.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

Edgerton recalls a moment cut from the film, in which the boss orders all the other workers to settle back into their menial tasks.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

Executives say the technology allows them to grow the number of customer-facing roles while reducing more menial operating roles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

He found the most easy, menial tasks so challenging, like making a meal or walking the dog.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the Mayor’s yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston