TASK in a Sentence

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352 example sentences for TASK, such as:

1. I will enter on my task tomorrow.
2. This task is accomplished by great effort.
3. We need to define the task ahead very clearly.
4. Defining the concept of class is not an easy task.
5. Our task is to challenge the UN to make a swift decision.

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 Meanings and Examples of TASK
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task
 v.  labor or study imposed by another, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or with difficulty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  He went about his task without knowing what force directed him, or whose hands and feet were fulfilling its orders.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The demands of the Confederate commissary were growing heavier by the month, and hers was the task of making Tara produce.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Replacing the fences the Yankees had so blithely burned was a long hard task.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Everything was a long hard task, she thought wearily, and she was tired of it, tired and mad and sick of it all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  He knew, he understood and her task was miraculously made easy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
10  It seemed wonderful to him that any one should perform with such careless ease the difficult task of making tea in public in a lurching train.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
11  But Miss Bart, it appeared, really did want to know about Americana; and moreover, she was already sufficiently informed to make the task of farther instruction as easy as it was agreeable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  She settled herself at the desk, and Mrs. Trenor accepted her resumption of the morning's task with a sigh which implied that, after all, she had proved herself unfit for higher uses.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
13  Thus far, then, Lily felt that she had done well; and the conviction strengthened her for the task that remained.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  She understood well enough the nature of the task before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
15  The task was not an easy one; but neither was it easy, in her long sleepless nights, to face the thought of what George Dorset was so clearly ready to offer.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.
17  The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps.
18  Our task is to challenge the UN to make a swift decision.
19  Defining the concept of class is not an easy task.
20  There are some people who consider that their task in life is to push others about.
21  They are faced with the task of dismantling the state machinery in order to create more democratic structures.
22  We need to define the task ahead very clearly.
23  Their specific task is to sort through the reams of information and try to determine what it may mean.
24  The teacher assigned a different task to each of the children.
25  Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
26  This task is accomplished by great effort.
27  I will enter on my task tomorrow.
28  The prosecution's task in a case is to establish a person's guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.
29  This task force could examine the broader question of what types of projects should require voter approval.
30  The task of the union representative is to fight on behalf of the members.