SINECURE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SINECURE, such as:

1. By some writers this office is called a sinecure.
2. She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
3. The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort.

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 Meanings and Examples of SINECURE
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sinecure
 n.  well-paid position with little responsibility
Classic Sentence:
1  She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  By some writers this office is called a sinecure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
3  The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
Example Sentence:
1  My job is no sinecure; I work long hours and have much responsibility.
2  She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
3  In a society where Qataris are outnumbered roughly seven-to-one by expatriates, long-term residents speak of a growing frustration among graduates that they are being fobbed off with sinecures while the most satisfying jobs go to foreigners.