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Sentence Examples She had had to go run an errand for her mom out at the grocery store, while Richard had still been there, and he had said he'd come along. A DRINK-DRIVER has escaped jail for taking to the road on an errand of mercy in defiance of a driving ban. At first, Alic worked as an errand boy, doing Danilo's bidding on a day-by-day basis. Euclide was a 12-year-old black kid who worked as a hustler, guide and errand boy. When he graduated high school, he became an errand boy on a soap opera, then a writer. I was made to be an assassin, on my own and doing things my way, not someone's errand boy. She also pays the bills which the errand boy had been insistently presenting. Those in service jobs such as clerks, errand boys, messengers and telegraph operators represented another eight percent. Harry Pratt left school at 14 to work as an errand boy for the Gazette, and was soon promoted to the role of chief stamp-licker. It was the Frenchman's way of punishing Robby for treating him like an errand boy. But Edmund had noticed that she had sent an errand boy to pick up various presents that she had spotted in town. The errand boy of a dealer spends his days bouncing between his girlfriend and his paranoid boss. Neeley works in Manhattan as an errand boy for a broker friend of Sissy's, John. But Smith repeats the unfair assertion, first made by Mulroney's errand boy, that the blame for its defeat falls squarely on other shoulders. Last year, he served as Washington's errand boy in presenting a motion denouncing Cuba before the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Then, on his way to his office at Milwaukee's County Stadium, the baseball commissioner stopped to do a family errand. I asked other parents when they began leaving their children alone, either for a short errand or during after-school hours. I felt someone stalking me when I was walking home from the errand that my mom sent me on. I have a short errand to run, then I'll reschedule my meeting with Mark and plunge back into the fray. Casey Mason was on a shopping errand on her bicycle when she was involved in an accident with a lorry at Stockbridge, Keighley. Show More Sentences His most charitable errand involved taking a passenger to every sports shop in Swindon in search of an England rugby shirt. Police were last night searching for a boy aged nine missing for more than 24 hours after leaving his home to run an errand. Seniors will appreciate an offer to write a letter for them, make a phone call or run an errand while you're there. Sifting through literary works for psychological gold might always be a fool's errand. And as anyone who has ever been in a bad relationship knows, assigning emotional motivations to others is usually a fool's errand. A Swift boat mission up a Mekong Delta river was a fool's errand, serving no greater purpose than showing the flag. I do not believe they're there on a fool's errand nor do I consider them to be hapless dupes and slaves to a cause not worth fighting. Besieging communist China and trying to overthrow the government there, however, is a fool's errand and a recipe for world war. But of course there was a family errand, one whose reality greeted us the instant the country road dead-ended into the highway running south. Efforts are also made to appoint a common plumber or electrician, someone to iron clothes or even employ an errand boy. The judge believes he was acting like a flunkey and errand boy for the government by backing its anti-democratic terror legislation. It was that or become everyone's glorified errand boy, being used where needed. Cain had made that very clear when he had shanghaied them for this little errand. So I watch the clock, longing for lunch hour, when I might be able to run an errand or at least do some yoga. Owen lowered his gaze as they passed the two guards posted nearby and adopted the attitude of a menial servant busy running an errand. She looked upward, and witnessed several small clouds scudding across the sky, as if bent on a happy errand as she was herself. I just returned home from running an errand to find this business card stuck in our door. Channeling the errand momentum, Ace led with his right hand and cartwheeled backward leading into a chain of visually stunning backflips. Peter Jackson undertook what seemed like a fool's errand and dared to film the unfilmable. Within a short space of time he had become an unofficial political errand boy for the administration and a co-partner in its crimes. Show More Sentences She called me way too early in the morning and informed me of my new errand or duty. What does it say about me that my first errand is getting online? Engaged on a somewhat illegal errand for his brother Darren, in prison on a drugs charge, he witnesses a gangland murder carried out by the villainous Harry Taylor. The Crusade was seen as an errand of mercy to right a terrible wrong. No one knew their whereabouts until they had reached their destination and accomplished their purpose, whether they were on an errand of mercy or a warlike mission. Common sense tells us that preaching to the street is a fool's errand. The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life. In the early 1970s, he worked as an errand boy for a garment factory. The arrested man, who supposedly served as an errand boy of the group, has confessed to placing the parcel bomb outside the airport on the orders of the detained suspects. Victor falls hard for the stunning Gracia, a star attraction at the Don's club, and Pascual offers Silvio a job as driver and errand boy for the owner of a strip club. I think it's both dangerous and a fool's errand to try to predict how an appellate court is going to come out simply on the basis of oral argument. Framed for her murder, Hammond tries to track down his son, but winds up becoming a reluctant errand boy for Jolson to ensure his child's survival. The police were informed, and the defendant was arrested, the shop proprietor testified that they had been her slippers, and that the defendant was formerly her errand boy. Closed circuit TV footage from a convenience store near his home showed him running an errand for his mother at 5.02 pm, after which he returned home. He demonstrated that he had the makings of a future Marine after his mother sent him on a last minute errand to a nearby deli. It's a fool's errand when the general electorate is trending in favor of more government. It is, increasingly, the received wisdom in the West that nation building is a fool's errand. Despite the obstacles, however, Ephron excelled, moving from errand girl to bona fide writer at the New York Post and Esquire. In civics classes, world politicians are elected to serve their constituencies and the nation, not to serve as errand boys for the moneyed classes. She had disappeared while out running an errand for her mother. Show More Sentences More than a necessary evil, it has become a mandatory fool's errand. I have to go run an errand, I'll be back in like ten minutes, okay? Now you're the errand boy for a potential coach, who is eager to claim credit for cleaning up a mess you created, and you might never make another personnel decision again. Trying to pin the blame on any other individual is a fool's errand. Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished And her errand ghost wanders through the night. Now he feels like he is the househusband and errand boy in the relationship, and that isn't what he signed up for. If I were to travel only that I might be discontented with that which I can get at home, methinks I should go but on a fool's errand. Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. Children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or sold matches, flowers, and other cheap goods. Children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or selling matches, flowers and other cheap goods. But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand. I beg your pardon for being here. I come to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my errand. Examples from Classical Literature They took possession of an immigrant team that was in gager's stable, and just after sunset started on their patriotic errand. Something within warned him, as the daemon used to warn Socrates, that his errand would be bootless. It seemed to me that a rate-collector, presenting a demand note, could have boasted a more graceful errand. The nature of that errand stood revealed in the indaba then being held between the two opposing parties. Noticing that the garage door was open and the car missing, Brad deduced that the den mother had gone on a quick errand. With them was Issachar, whom he greeted, asking him if he knew the errand upon which they were bent. In that case, with my friend rondel to guide him, I believe Henderson could accomplish your errand. The patent log on the taffrail periodically rang a single tinkling stroke for every mile traversed on an errand of faith. You come to me on this sham errand about the girl, but that is not your purpose, Mohammed of Mequinez! When the jester had left them to go upon his errand, Francesco turned to his companion. Why then he is ruffe low, a ruffian, a bold adventurous errand to do any rough service for his Lady. Her private room was sacred to herself alone, and unless armed with a most warrantable errand nobody ever ventured to disturb her. Every breeze which stirred the tree-tops was a god, going on some errand for Aeolus. Life at Hazelwood was not so exciting that a journey, on whatever errand, would not come as a very welcome interlude. For a moment the young Hellene believed that Achillas was sincere in his errand. Then handing it to his daughter, and instructing the young girl how to deliver it incog, he despatches her upon her errand. I tell you that Captain 'inconnu' came to your cave on the same errand that brought his lieutenant here. At the counter she found a friend, bent on the same errand, and conversed with her insipidly, wasting much time. Though his visit was an errand of mercy, yet he was treated as the offscouring of all things. His present errand became a treachery to be swept aside by his refound strength. Show More Sentences Mr. Paine looked up as he entered, and had no difficulty in guessing his errand. Singling out Jehu from the group, he says, I have an errand to thee, O captain! Runkle was off like a shot on his errand and soon returned with two marines. One hand badly burnt, face and hair singed, Loveland was back in a minute from his errand at the gas main. I trusted you sufficiently, Jones, to belive you wouldn't have brought me on a useless errand at such a time of awful anxiety. When he was sent out by Farnsworth, he made as long an errand of it as he could. So Joseph set out on his errand and found his brothers in the pasture-lands of Dothan. His errand was to produce a deadly quarrel between the captive soul and the wicked one, its captivator. She had fought desperately, primordially, when 105 she had learned that her errand of mercy was nothing more than a cruel hoax. The poet, the player, and all but the dancing-master and doctor, went on this errand. He knew, too, that to commandeer a destroyer for a private errand was inadmissable. And now Herbart had speech often with his mistress, and began to tell her of his errand and to urge his uncle's suit. The stranger was Reinald, who had come forth on the same errand as Hildebrand. This relieved her, and she was able to give an account of her errand on the field of battle. He worked in a shipyard for a bit, then I took him as a sort of errand boy and porter. Archie, crestfallen, sneaked out of the orangery on her errand. I had just fastened our pinafores together, and hung them up for a curtain, when in comes Joseph, on an errand from the stables. They gave a sort of ornithological air to every errand I had to the barn. Bert had gone down to the lumberyard office on an errand for his father. I was chilled and unnerved, and angry with the Professor for taking me on such an errand and with myself for coming. Show More Sentences Now do you think this unhung scoundrel has any inkling of our errand? My errand here is to give you a white bear which I bought in Greenland. He was posting away as if upon life and death, and could but just spare time to tell us his errand, and where you all were. With another flash of his white teeth, rastus was off on his errand. The missionaries sent on a heavenly errand, had sailed by their lovely shores, and had abandoned them to their idols of wood and stone. It struck him at once that Philip had been sent for, and he was amused that he had been brought on a fool's errand. He would have a legitimate errand to the home of Enos Walker. Oh, by the way, Ezekiel, I wonder if you could do a little errand for me? To this gentleman came bellarmine, on the errand I have mentioned. On one day in that week the nurse returned in a state of most uncustomary excitement from an errand on which Agnes had sent her. Tessie and Teddy skated along smoothly on their errand for mother. Such a warship as was this came not hitherward without an errand. Winkle, senior, had been quite so much of a man of business, it was extremely probable he might never have waited upon him, on such an errand. On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an errand, and give poor Joanna, the invalid doll, her daily exercise. In some fashion its silence and stolidity steadied her for her errand. He had gone on an errand to the house of a farmer who lived on a hillside beyond the Fair Ground and had returned by a path through a field. Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this special errand. When I was an errand boy, at the age of 14, I never thought I would be getting this. Not so long ago groceries were delivered in boxes by Amos Hinton errand boys cycling round Teesside. He sank deeper amid the ironweed, forgot his errand, and began to dream. Show More Sentences He delivered his errand, and said the clans were already gathering in the big hall over the market house. I said I had been unavoidably delayed in finishing my official errand. If you can stump up some cash, I'll get him to run an errand for us. Here was my chance of discharging the true errand on which I was returned. This left no doubt of their errand, and we were all retaken. And so she came to Lonely Ranch on her self-imposed errand of justice. Now it so chanced that Little John had fared expeditiously with his errand. Let them that sware the oath to Tyndareus go with thee on this errand. So the tanner departed joyfully upon his errand, but much more interested in the dun deer of the forest than in any two-legged rovers therein. Stephanie could not refuse, though her errand was uncongenial. They offered him no violence, and he performed his errand safely. At this time he was his own buyer, salesman, book-keeper and errand boy. Mr. Wittleworth had been an errand boy in Mr. Choate's office! Then Willie opened the door and followed the errand boy into the place. The spy in the house below gave that dollar to the errand boy. An errand boy from the market carries the stuff as far as the door. You sent off that errand boy, and that is how the whole thing came about. They professed to be on an amicable errand, to make peace with the Crows, and set off in all haste, before night, to overtake them. But concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started me on the errand. Which showed that he had been all the time occupied with hilding's errand. Show More Sentences Ike picked up his reins, and the man spurred his horse off on his errand. So we sat down under the rocks and groaned, and for one I wished heartily that we had never started on this fool's errand. Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. On the following day Nat was sent on an errand up to forty-second Street. Suppose you send that goggle-eyed skivvy of yours on an errand. But Margaret declined to go again to Gouda on such an errand. But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles where the beaches are only beat with water-lilies, will ye do one little errand for me? This was, of course, Mary Grey, bound upon her baleful errand. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again. And also, perhaps, the old-world errand on which I had come. Could we do no more, we had at least filled the false knight, Sir Judas, so full of English arrows that he would curse the day that ever he came on such an errand. Edith sent Hans to their cabins to get them to take Dennin down the coast in a canoe to the nearest white settlement or trading post, but the errand was fruitless. It was to the effect that she would have in Freddy an ideal errand boy. The feeling implied in the errand of inquiry that had brought him to the house was the one betrayal of human sympathy which escaped the rugged, impenetrable old man. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of errand? Words that rhyme with errand What is the past tense of errand? What is the plural of errand? What is the noun for errand? Translations for errand Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words errancy err ERP erotomania erotism erotics errands errant errantly errantry errata erratic 6-letter Words Starting With e er err erra erran