errand
Example Sentences
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Within two days, the road – buffed and cleaned - returns to its usual form, lined with parked cars and locals going about their daily errands.
From BBC
She had found him accommodation and ran errands for him, he added.
From BBC
Trying to assign an exact reason to Bitcoin’s collapse can be a fool’s errand, but one risk increasingly cited by short sellers is the rise of quantum computing, S3 said.
From Barron's
Then he said, “I’m just going to run a few errands. Can I pick him up at two o’clock?”
From Literature
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And as the residents had gotten to know him, they’d asked him to run errands.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.