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How to use sinecure in a sentence

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From 1780 to 1834 he held the lucrative sinecure of teller of the Exchequer.
A governorship was a lucrative and prestigious position, but it was not a sinecure.
The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet.
Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
Since you can't fire the current manager, ease him out by finding a cushy, better paying sinecure elsewhere.
The administration associated with setting up both as a company or a sole trading entity is no sinecure in today's world.
The problem is, he is demonstrably no intellectual of any great ability, he is ill-disciplined and looks to the academic sector for a comfortable sinecure.
The rectory continued, usually as a sinecure, until it was impropriated in 1546 to Christ Church, Oxford, and soon afterwards to the secular lords of Sudbury manor.
Their ancestors were originally used to attack otters in deep waters, no sinecure, flush badgers and hunt common vermin.
We all know that negotiating harmonising directives will be no sinecure with 25 Member States around the table.
To start with, it is no sinecure to find a client willing to embark on an insecure road.
Upon arriving in Da Nang, General Hieu felt immediately that he was assigned to a sinecure position.
Keeping track of all this is no sinecure, and that is why our system is also a mobile time clock.
In fact, the low-ish center of gravity, despite the considerable upper fairing, makes riding above 20kph a sinecure.
Unlike the Parliament, the Commission is not elected, but appointed by the member-states, and is frequently used as a sinecure for retired or has-been politicians.
That's one reason news of her appointment to a well-upholstered sinecure in state government comes as a surprise.
The job is often a sinecure offered to widely admired figures.
This was no sinecure, with maintenance an important part of the job, although there were many opportunities to derive profit.
This concise report but prolix shows that travel is not always a sinecure.
Derby had intended to replace Chelmsford once a vacancy in a suitable sinecure developed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But, to tell you the plain truth, I am of opinion that my censorial power will not be useless to you, nor a sinecure to me.
The post of the latter, however, was a sinecure, as the wind had again fallen.
And for the next quarter of an hour the place of the poor repeater was no sinecure.
The position of the mistress of a family in those centuries was no sinecure.
But it was not in Mr alcock's nature to make a sinecure of his office.
He lived, however, at Leatherhead, Slinfold being a sinecure.
The position of General Manager as Bruce interpreted it was no sinecure.
He had seen enough to realize that pulling a trawl was no sinecure.
The life of a Med Ship man is not exactly a sinecure, at best.
The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort.
He looked as though he did not take his salary from the public company, whose servant he was, for a sinecure.
During the months when navigation was closed Captain Jim's office was a sinecure.
There being only five prisoners at Loewestein, the post of turnkey was not a very onerous one, but rather a sort of sinecure, given after a long period of service.
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