Example sentences for: errand

How can you use “errand” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • George Steiner has been writing his incandescent essays on high culture for nearly four decades now, steadily deepening his insights and widening his topical reach, but carrying on the same essential errand.

  • As one fan, now elderly, recalled, “Errand boys were able to enter through the `Gem' and `Magnet' into a new world where the talk was of fivers and tenners, motorbikes and gold watches —things they had never encountered at that time,” so their horizons as well as their vocabularies were extended.

  • I put new Blossoms in the Glass--And throw the old--away--I push a petal from my GownThat anchored there--I weighThe time 'twill be till six o'clockI have so much to do--And yet--Existence--some way back--Stopped--struck--my ticking--through--We cannot put Ourself awayAs a completed ManOr Woman--When the Errand's doneWe came to Flesh--upon--There may be--Miles on Miles of Nought--Of Action--sicker far--To simulate--is stinging work--To cover what we areFrom Science--and from Surgery--Too Telescopic EyesTo beat on us unshaded--For their--sake--not for Ours--'Twould start them--We--could tremble--But since we got a Bomb--And held it in our Bosom--Nay--Hold it--it is calm--

  • Son of a prosperous lawyer in Troy, New York, Hall completed his studies in engineering at Rensselaer in 1842 and was about to graduate a second time--from Harvard College in 1846--when his father sent him on an errand.

  • Still, before Americans plunge forward on a fool's errand, we might want to notice that the best historical social science challenges the claims of conservatives and centrists about when, how, and why democratic civic engagement has flourished in the United States.


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