set task
Example Sentences
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Use a timer to set task deadline alarms.
From Inc • Mar. 8, 2013
He dipped his face and hands in cooling water and, at the table, with squared elbows, addressed himself to a set task.
From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph
At one stage it may mean the satisfaction of accomplishing a set task, whether selected by himself or imposed by some one else.
From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Gruenberg, Sidonie Matzner
He had always lived in easy circumstances, doing as he liked, enjoying society, and amusing himself, and it was hard for him to devote his attention strictly to any set task.
From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Cody, Sherwin
He hated the set task of fifty lines, and hated the system that imposed a fine of twenty lines for a failure to fulfil the first.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Hubbard, Elbert
