errand

During a recent busy week, I had my groceries and prescriptions delivered to my door; that errand would once have required multiple trips to the store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Without the prescribed navigation I was accustomed to in a museum, this became a fool’s errand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

My husband and I burst out laughing – not at that scene, or the clerk’s impromptu theatrics, but at this injection of delight into an otherwise mundane errand.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

According to history, betting against Microsoft’s stock over the longer term has been a fool’s errand.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026

I went, and having found Bessie and despatched her on my errand, I proceeded to take further measures.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Holliday spends her volunteer time socializing over coffee and the newspaper, helping residents run errands, leading fitness classes on Saturday mornings and organizing game nights.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

During school hours, the role includes managing schedules, coordinating appointments and activities, running errands and overseeing day-to-day household administration—then transitions to child care when the kids return home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

They often show him doing everyday activities such as "munchie runs" to supermarkets or shopping malls, visiting restaurants or running other errands.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Wilber Urbina Garcia had an ambitious list of errands to run the day after his high school graduation, before his summer really began.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The elevator arrived; several police-like nondescript men and women disemelevatored, clacked off across the lobby on their several errands.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick