thankless task
Example Sentences
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Getting kids to drink water can be a thankless task - they would often rather do anything else.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
And somehow she had to crack China’s near-total dominance of the world’s rare earths—a strategically important but commercially thankless task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
