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Example sentences for "errands"

Lexicographically close words:
erpower; erpowering; err; erra; errand; errant; errantry; errare; errat; errata
  1. But these domestics were so pleased at such errands one felt no hesitation in requiring them.

  2. We had to get bread, meat, and common grocery from Inverary, and the rest from Glasgow, so that we soon discovered that the whole time of a male servant would be required for errands of different kinds.

  3. She knew how Rhoda sat planning to get her errands done.

  4. He had never fully risen above former conditions of servitude when he ran errands and shovelled paths for Addington gentry.

  5. The children who are trying to please him would run errands for him.

  6. But the angel of thanksgiving, of gratitude, has almost empty hands as he returns from his errands to this world.

  7. But I am here, monsieur, to do any errands you want done; tell me what you want, and I'll go.

  8. I am in a great hurry; I have some errands to do.

  9. I don't think you was doing errands much just then!

  10. And to think that that Paul told me to distrust Monsieur Albert and the errands he gave me to do!

  11. A most excellent man, happening to see me, when I was ten years old, in the charitable institution where I was brought up, took a fancy to me and offered to take charge of me, as he needed someone to do errands for him.

  12. Come with me, if you will; I have several errands for you to do.

  13. King has been chosen for many ticklish errands in his time, and Saunders is still in Delhi.

  14. He does ticklish errands for her, or so they say.

  15. There were several, belonging to the neighbors, from among which Dick was accustomed to take his pick, in return for errands run and other services rendered to their owners; but on this particular morning not one of them all was available.

  16. Errands to run, and I want him to learn how.

  17. Then you may hitch up the ponies, and we'll do some errands around the village.

  18. Prince among his hands, and was employed in going upon his errands for nine or ten weeks after the battle of Culloden.

  19. All the missions, except the British, were birds of passage, who departed upon fulfilling their errands of securing American aid in directions where it was most required.

  20. Hardly durst men fare up into the dale, though they had errands enough there.

  21. Now as time wore on, goodman Sigurd gave out that he would fare from home on certain errands of his own.

  22. And a very good servant, who cooks and valets me and runs errands and takes such good care of me that last night Cust and Balfour called at one to get some supper and he would not let them in.

  23. I am very well and happy and send you all my love-- Jaggers has been running errands for me ever since I came here, and a most loyal servitor when I was ill-- On his return I want to keep him on as a buttons.

  24. Joe, he does her errands and other folks stops in sometimes, but Miss Ainslie ain't left her front yard for I d' know how long.

  25. She's got a funny house--I've been inside of it sometimes when I've been down on errands for Miss Hathaway.

  26. Some of the clerks even made errands in order to get a better view of her.

  27. IX THE BAG OF RYE FLOUR All that week Mother Pepper kept Joel and David away from the Store, and Polly or Ben had to go, whenever the errands made it necessary.

  28. We would stand before Thee with our feet shod with the shoes of readiness, willing to go out on errands of Christian love and service.

  29. Messengers are wanted, messengers shod with "the readiness of the gospel of peace," messengers swift and ready to run these glorious errands as the ministers of eternal hope.

  30. Dewey, like Franklin, who trained the lightning of the sky to respect the safety, and finally to run the errands of men on earth, brought religion from its remote home and domesticated it in the immediate present.

  31. He would often send out my brothers, instead of me, upon errands or chores, "to save me from interruption.

  32. The longer the errands the oftener we go.

  33. After attending to a few errands at the railroad station, Mr. Gregg took the girls back to the circus lot.

  34. Last week I offered to run errands for Mr. Vargo, who lives down the street.

  35. The sloop Hebe, unmortgaged, ran her small profitable errands between Boston and Newport like a dog who will go on herding sheep or guarding the house into the shadows of old age, not even asking for a pat on the head.

  36. There were innumerable errands to the city, and nearly every day the big car went down and returned laden with materials for the work.

  37. It was to open at noon, and all the morning everybody was running about, doing last minute errands or attending to belated decorations.

  38. They would be sent upon errands by their employers to the bake house or some other place; and perhaps ere they were admitted again they would be closely questioned as to what they had seen or heard.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "errands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.